With one week left until the submission period ends, 110 works from all over the national territory are already competing for the fifth edition of the Love and Dislove Letter Contest "Novios de El Mojón".
The contest, which will be decided on the next Book Day (April 23), is organized by the Department of Culture of the City Council of Teguise and has cash prizes for the winners. The jury will be composed this time by Pilar Hernández Pérez, reader, Juan Pérez, professor of Literature, and Saúl García Crespo, journalist.
Controversy in the previous edition
The [previous edition->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/Carta-de-amor-a-un-trapezoide-gana] was famous for the plagiarism that the winning author made when presenting the work "Love letter to a trapezoid". After the jury's decision, it was discovered that the letter he had presented was not his, but from a professor of mathematics.
Although it was proven that the letter was not his own, the author denied that he had plagiarized it and in an interview he gave to La Voz de Lanzarote, he assured that [he had not "plagiarized but improved" the poem->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/spip.php?page=imprimir&id_article=17778]. It is possible that this year, one of the 110 letters submitted is his, since last year the writer assured that he would present himself in the next edition.
