The AMIC-Fictions literary competition held its prize-giving ceremony for the Balearic Islands on Wednesday at the Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca, attended by some sixty people. This contest, aimed at students in the 3rd and 4th year of ESO, baccalaureate and intermediate vocational training, has the collaboration of the Directorate General of Language Policy.

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The competition is held in all Catalan-speaking territories and, in this year’s edition, 4,493 students have registered. This figure represents an increase of 51% over the previous edition. In the case of the Balearic Islands, the number of participants doubled.

Of the 463 participants from the Balearic Islands, 136 of them from Mallorca, the story by Maria Antònia Maimó Vidal, from IES Felanitx, has been awarded the prize for the Best of the Balearic Islands and the Best Story of Mallorca in the 14th edition of the AMIC-Fictions literary competition.

The winning story competed with the Best Story of Menorca and the Best Story of Eivissa. The jury considered that the story entitled Dualitat mortal (Deadly Duality) deserves a first place for the Balearic Islands because “it surprises with its metaphors and the precision of its descriptions, full of black humour. A story that interweaves past and present, particular and universal, to express political and social concerns”.

The Second Best Story of the Balearic Islands went to Alexia Alfallo Álvarez de Toledo, from the Mistral School in Eivissa, with her story Asfíxia, “for its great narrative fluidity that engages the reader from the very first moment, combining the points of view of a murderer and his victim. Ending with a thoughtful and surprising twist at the end”.

The Third Best Story of the Balearic Islands went to Carla Genestar Mallo and Gerard Pons Sucarrats, from IES Maria Àngels Cardona in Ciutadella de Menorca, with their story entitled Desperta’t, “for the exceptional originality of a story that grabs you from the start, and leaves you captivated, transporting you fully into the metaphysical plan where the story takes place. It questions the reader and makes him or her participate in this moral judgement in an impeccable way”.