Hanane Oulaillah-Jazouani wins the 2011 literary contest "A Sea of Words"
جمعة, 09/12/2011 - 11:29 — Spain
The international jury of the literary contest "A Sea of Words" has awarded the first prize for 2011 to the Moroccan Hanane Oulaillah-Jazouani, a 30-year old resident in Casablanca. Her story Le cadenas (The Padlock) tells of the vicissitudes of the 50-year old Khalid, who has been chosen as a member of a polling station team during the first democratic and fair elections in a country emerging from 50 years of dictatorship by an autocrat called Ali. This is the fourth year of "A Sea of Words", organised by the IEMed and the Anna Lindh Foundation.
The second prize was given to Ilija Djurovic, a 21-year old from Montenegro, for the story THC and LCD, while the third prize was won by Gintare Laurinaviciuté, a 17-year old Lithuanian, for Playing Democracy or A Girl from the Room Republic.
The awards were presented in an event at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans attended by the twenty youths who in the judgement of the jury wrote the best stories from the 165 submitted this year.
The young writers who attended the ceremony, including the three winners, are from Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Palestine, France, Israel, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Syria, Romania, Montenegro and Morocco.
The fourth year of the contest focused on the theme of active citizenship (participation, democracy and citizenship) on the occasion of the European Year of Volunteering. The literary contest, organised since 2008 by the IEMed and the Anna Lindh Foundation, is aimed at writers up to 30 years old and resident in any of the 43 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area.
The event was presented by Andreu Bassols (Director General of the IEMed), Maria-Àngels Roque (Director of Studies on Mediterranean Cultures at the IEMed) and Dimitrios Cavouras (representative of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures).
The international jury is made up of the literary critic Elisabetta Bartuli (Italy) and the writers Najwa Barakat (Lebanon), Jamila Hassoune (Morocco), Pere Antoni Pons (Spain) and Alfredo Zucchi (Italy), winner of the 2010 contest.
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