The three young winners of this year’s “A Sea of Words” have clearly shown the combative spirit that we have sought to foster at the IEMed. The story “Seven Years in Dreamland”, by the young Pole Martyna Chrześcijańska, takes us to a hypothetical future in which change of identity and evasion from reality seek to provide human beings with a happy life.
The second winning story, “Brokeback Suicides”, by the Montenegrin Mladen Grgić, shows how the internet can mercilessly distort something as serious as the joint suicide of two friends from childhood.
The third award was for the story “Love Comes from the North” by the Palestinian Sayed Ismail, which describes the feelings to be confronted by a young Muslim from Gaza and two Israeli and Jewish sisters who enter Palestine incognito and discover daily life there for themselves, which is very different from how the media describes it.
The 15 short stories selected this year in our Euro-Mediterranean literary contest show the relevance of
