Throughout these five years and a half the regulars of the group have had the satisfaction of being able to count among its guest writers as Javier Moro and The Marquis de Tamaron , journalists Pedro Piqueras , Pablo Muñoz and Arcadi Espada, historians as Feliciano Barrios, or women struggling for their rights as Shapiry Hakam. The nerve center of the party is in Madrid but over the years has also been moved to prime locations in search of his characters: The Library of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial , Navarra o Berlín han sido los lugares elegidos.

Among his books from Silver Bullets Elmer Mendoza to All that was solid Muñoz Molina have passed 38 gatherings in which the novels, fundamentally, ensayos y libros de historia han generados apasionados encuentros y desencuentros literarios.

Catch the Love, A thousand splendid suns, Gomorrah, The heart of Greenstone, The kingdom is not of this world, Colonel No One Writes to, The Black Legend, The Fountainhead, The Invertebrate Spain, Lower eyelids, The crushes, First Memory, The map and the territory, After Durk, Freedom, Winter Journal, A Princess in Berlin, Impatience heart, Snobs, Story of a German or Oblivion are that we will read some of the titles from July 2008 until October 2013: Congratulations to all!!

With phrases taken directly from the book we summarize:

“There have been big mistakes: money available without control mechanisms; the merits seemed useless, mediocrity and always rewarded ... all depending on the political favor; To make big money political contacts required;

It is understood that the party has to be linked to vandalism, and because he wanted the parties making them aumentasen I sociocultural activities in which the public is not used to pay and in the end that meant not giving value to free; The effects of trash TV, with the proliferation of litter and rudeness; The left step of his secularism and anticlericalism to be in favor of the rituals inherited from the counter: A democratic country should be secular; It has fostered ignorance. It has encouraged the party with more capital than the effort among politicians. Over 30 years of democracy has not been done pedagogy of democracy. Because democracy must be shown as it is not natural. Natural is the barbarism, the cry, no la civilización.

The natural thing is ignorance. No learning that requires no effort and no later to bear fruit. The only way to preach democracy is by example and in Spain has been preached otherwise: loggerheads, Verbal violence, personal and collective irresponsibility, flattery, trickery intransigence, victimhood , narcissism, indulgence in robbery, hatred , rudeness, y el desprecio a las leyes.

It is well seen assaulting the contrary, alzar the voz mas high. El eje de la vida política no es el debate educado en las formas y riguroso en las ideas sino el mitin político en el que las formas son escasas y las ideas inexistentes.

In Spain it is very difficult to contradict, especially when you say something that bothers someone on your side: left alone is hard and difficult and example of them have been:

Manuel Chaves and Arturo Barea in the Second Republic by not admitting the murders; Nestor almond homosexual anti-Castro; Conservatives who defend secularism; Progressives do not break faith; Los homosexuales que están en contra de la fiesta del orgullo gay….

The success of acceptance civic climbers, corrupt and plugged and the difficulties of bright, honest to develop their skills

Nothing mattered as there was money:

• There had to be prepared to get a good job, solo tener contactos.
• No importaba comprobar o no una información antes de ser publicada.
• You did not study to pass course. Cualquier alumno podía llegar al final de la educación obligatoria sin importar si sabia algo o nada.
• Sin saber nada uno podía convertirse en famoso.

While all this is true we are now much better than years ago, but and therefore, particular care must:

• The public education
• The public health
• The rule of law
• Pension guarantees

Tenemos que ver nuestras realidades porque a veces no somos conscientes de lo que puede pasar en nada de tiempo.

The popular peasant culture was dissolved without realizing, sin tiempo para lamentar la pérdida de lo valioso y celebrar lo deleznable.

In a very short time has gone from dictatorship to democracy; from poverty to wealth; del asilamiento a los viajes internacionales.

People raised in shortages have raised their children in the waste without instilling a sense of responsibility. De aprovecharlo todo hemos pasado a despilfarrarlo.

La generación que creció sin derechos parece haberse inventado un mundo sin deberes.

The democratic tradition is not improvised … Years ago there was exemplary steps:

• 1962. Munich where it was agreed: todas las fuerzas unidas reclamar una democracia para España.
• 1974. Carrillo y Calvo Serrer did the Democratic Board
• 1977. In the first parliament in which Fraga and Passiflora se sentaban juntos.
• We have had 34 años de convivencia bajo una misma constitución.
• In these years ,Spain has often been ahead: In the Second Republic Clara Campoamor with the female, in 1978 with the abolition of the death penalty and 2006 con el matrimonio homosexual.

Be careful in accepting the normality. CARE FOR EVERYTHING THAT WAS SOLID CAN DISAPPEAR WITHOUT REALIZING and therefore:

• We need to talk
• We need to understand what is happening around us so fast
• Political activity has to be subject to controls
• We need austerity, transparency and accuracy of information
• We need a civic rebellion serene
• We must demand mandates limitations, open electoral lists, professionalism, Administration independence, revisión de organismos y empresas oficiales.
• Hay que alentar el talento y defender el valor de lo público.

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On 23 de enero el Jurado del Premio se reunión para fallar el premio de la II edición en la Casa del Lector de la Fundación Sánchez Ruiperez.

The winner will receive 12.000€ and a sculpture by Alberto Heart que serán entregados en un acto organizado por la Comunidad de Madrid en colaboración con la Fundación en el mes de Febrero.

The event was attended by members of the Jury: former Minister Cesar Antonio Molina, critic Santos Sanz Villanueva, the poet Carlos Fernandez Aganzo, Cultural ABC director Fernando Rodriguez Lafuente, writer and lecturer Fanny Rubio, writer and journalist Juan Cruz and academic Jury President Carmen Iglesias; They also asitieron The Deputy Minister of Culture Carmen Gonzalez Madrid, General Director Isabel Rosell, el Alcalde de Majadahonda Narciso de Foxa y la Presidenta y viuda del escritor España Suarez.

Santos Sanz Villanueva stressed excellence and obviousness of this ruling because "quality awards and honors, may like or not the reader, but it is questionable whether Luis Mateo is in the top level of literary quality. In the book together imaginative records and different expressions in each story, everything behind a strange literature that delves into the strange and unusual is the world, profundiza en lo que Luis Mateo llama las enfermedades del alma”.

The first edition went to “The Four Corners” Manuel Longares

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The presentation took place in the auditorium of cultural field of the English Court and was to be presented with Cuchita LLuc President of the Culinary Academy at Valencia, The restorative Quique Dacosta, y los autores Ainhoadel Carre y Jaime Ruiz de Velasco.

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