Proposals received during the week as a possible start for the Short Story Contest
IV MICRO-STORY COMPETITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
Part One: "A Good Beginning"
ADULT CATEGORY – IN SPANISH:
30. 'I have spoken with gods, I have loved women and I have written songs that make bards cry; maybe you've heard of me."The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss.
31. 'The alarm clock rang at twenty minutes to seven“. The path of the sheep, Beatriz de Mena.
32. "They slithered like snakes, camouflaged like chameleons, killed like lions, fled like gazelles.“. The altar of the gods, Beatriz de Mena.
33. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.
34. 'Halfway through our life's journey I found myself in a dark jungle." The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
35. 'The day dawned extraordinarily gray and cold.” Lighting a Fire, Jack London.
36. 'Grandma didn't want to go to Florida.” A good man is hard to find, Flannery O'Connor.
37. 'At the bottom of the Atlantic there is a book.Samarkand, Amin Maalouf.
38. 'All this happened, more or less.” Slaughterhouse 5 or the children's crusade, Kurt Vonnegut.
39. 'Since I was a child, I have had an innate impulsiveness that runs in my family and that has only created problems for me.Botchan, Natsume Soseki.
40. 'As there is so much flu, they have had to close the University.” The gray notebook, Josep Pla.
41. 'The story had kept us listening breathlessly around the fire.” Another twist, Henry James.
42. 'And that song is our amulet.” Amulet, Roberto Bolaño.
43. 'They say that it first came from Africa, in the screams of the slaves, that it was the perdition of the chestnuts, just a whisper while a world was extinguished and another was emerging."The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz.
ADULT CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH:
8. 'The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him « Wild thing! »”. Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak.
9. "I can decide for myself whether I'm offended or not”. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
CHILDREN/JUNIOR CATEGORY – IN SPANISH: -
CHILDREN/JUVENILE CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH: -
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DELIVERY DEADLINE FROM “A GOOD START” to library@iie.es until November 15, 2013.
One winner per category will be selected from among all the proposals received, who will receive as a prize a set of books from the Siruela publishing house, editorial collaborator of the contest.
See more details at:
http://bibliotecaiie.wordpress.com/i-concurso-de-microrrelatos-del-instituto-internacional/
