Proposals received during the week as a possible start for the short story contest
I INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE MICRO-STORY COMPETITION
Part One: "A Good Beginning"
ADULT CATEGORY – IN SPANISH:
22) "Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that remote afternoon when his father took him to discover ice”. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez.
23) "I have been with a man who has a power: he knows the time of his death, and he waits for it listening to an invisible sea“. The Invisible Sea, Juan Cobos Wilkins – ISBN-978-84-01-33651-5
24) "You are too much for me. Too much some things, and too little others.” The Lord of the Plains, Javier Yanes – ISBN 978-84-01-33706-2
25) "Hotel rooms suggest to me a kind of river Leteo traversed by travelers who are like the dead whose history will be erased when they leave the room and the city“. The memory club, Eva Díaz Pérez – ISBN 978-84-233-4021-7
26) "You can run away from misfortune and fear as far as possible, but where will one hide from remorse.” The night of time, Antonio Muñoz Molina – ISBN 978-84-322-1275-8
ADULT CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH:
10) "Call me Ishmael“. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
CHILDREN/JUVENILE CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH:
2) "“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.” The Giver, Lois Lowry.
3) "Dusk, the long blue dusk of summer, was already falling on the garden by the time they discovered the book.” Magic by the book, Nina Bernstein
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Participate by sending us a “good start” to library@iie.es until the December 5. From among all the proposals received, the one that will serve as the starting point for the micro-story writing contest that will be held in January will be selected.
See more details at:
http://bibliotecaiie.wordpress.com/i-concurso-de-microrrelatos-del-instituto-internacional/
