The Andalucía Public School, located in the difficult neighborhood of Tres Mil Viviendas in Seville, has been awarded today with the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading in the Promotion of Reading modality, while the Librújula magazine has been awarded in the modality Promotion of Reading in the Media.
The jury of the award granted by the Ministry of Culture, and endowed with 30,000 euros in each of its modalities, has proposed the Andalusian Public School "for the fighting spirit of an educational community that is firmly committed to promoting reading as an antidote against inequalities in a difficult environment such as the Seville neighborhood of Tres Mil Viviendas. For turning the library into the center of attention and education, as well as the fundamental piece of work in the classroom and outside of them, opening its door to an entire community at risk of social exclusion, so that they have the opportunity to have another life through books.
The jury has valued the candidacy of CEIP Andalucía "as recognition to the entire educational community, for its enormous effort to promote reading activity and believe in the transformative power of reading".
Librújula has achieved its award for being "a magazine dedicated to books that constitutes a meeting point for lovers of reading. This publication represents an ambitious and attractive cultural project that shares a passion for literature, with special attention to poetry and the comic.
The jury has also valued “its ability to adapt to a new ecosystem in which the traditional printed format coexists, the digital version and the introduction of innovative formats such as the podcast. Librújula is an example of how experience in innovation is transformed towards the search for new reading audiences”.
The jury was chaired by María José Gálvez, Director General of Books, Comics and Reading at the Ministry of Culture, and Jesús González, Deputy Director General of Promotion of Books, Reading and Spanish Literature, acted as vice president. Esther Ruiz, proposed by the Federation of Radio and Television Associations of Spain; Antonio de Marco, by the Association of Editors of Cultural Magazines of Spain; Carmen Martínez Urtasun, for the State School Council; Irene Solbes, from the Feminist Research Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid; Dolores Gallardo, for the Spanish Confederation of Booksellers Guilds and Associations; Inmaculada Chacón, by the Collegiate Association of Writers of Spain; Fernando Juárez, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and, on behalf of the award-winning entities in the 2022 call, Jorge Gonzalvo, representing the Atrapavientos Association and Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, representing Revista de Occidente.
