Carlos Augusto Casas | Photography: author's Twitter profile
Carlos Augusto Casas is a journalist and noir writer and has already published three novels, the last father's law. In this interview He tells us about her and various other topics. he I appreciate very much your kindness and the time dedicated to her.
Carlos Augusto Casas
Born in Madrid in 1971, it is Writer and journalist whose career began at Diario 16. He ended up specializing in investigation journalism and has developed his work in the main generalist television channels. He now combines journalism with writing and directing the crime and crime novel collection Black Star, from the Editorial Cuadernos del Laberinto. He also writes a columna en Public, Black sheep, where he reviews works of the genre.
Sign also several reports that have been collected in anthologies and with one, that of The assassin's bar, won the XIV Sixth Continent International Short Story Award.
The first novel he published was There are no more jungle left to return and received applause from critics and the public as well as the VI Prize Wilkie collins for crime novels, the Novelpol Prize, the City of Santa Cruz and the Tormo Negro 2018 for the best crime novel of that year, in addition to other mentions and recognitions. Besides, now I know will adapt to the cinema by the Mexican director Gabriel Beristáin and will feature the North American actor Ron Perlman, seen in In search of fire, Hellboy o The Name of the Rose.
The second novel he released was The Ministry of Truth.
Carlos Augusto Casas — Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your new novel is titled father's law. What do you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?
CARLOS AUGUSTO CASAS: It is a novel special for me, because I raised it as a straight: I wanted to know if from a approach classic of thriller o riddle novel (the patriarch of a wealthy family is poisoned at his birthday party and the suspects are his family) he could build a Novelty. And I'm very happy with the result and also with the reaction of the readers.
It's hard to know where the idea for a novel comes from, I guess they influence many factors. I am not very clear about how my head works, beyond knowing that it works badly. But I think the origin may be an article that I read a while ago in which they spoke of a study which showed that many of the tall executives and managers of large companies have psychopathic traits.
- AL: Can you remember any of your first readings? And the first story you wrote?
CAC: One of the first readings I remember was The island of the treasure and since then I dream of being a pirate. I don't rule out becoming one one day. The first story I wrote was a very bad story, with a lot of blood and a lot of violence. Good thing I didn't show it to anyone or my parents would have gone broke from the therapy sessions.
- AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
ACC: James Ellroy, George V. Giggins, Josep wambaugh, donald west lake,John connolly, Kem Nunn…
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
ACC: Philip Marlowe, the detective created by Raymond Chadler. More than creating it, I would have liked to go out for drinks with him.
Hobbies, genres and editorial panorama
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
ACC: I write with music, always songs I don't know and, inevitably, one of them becomes the soundtrack of my novel. I can't stop listening to it until I finish it. When it comes to reading, I have no hobbies. I read when I can.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
ACC: read at night, in bed. AND write I like to do it alone and in silence, something that rarely happens being the father of twins and three dogs. I also like to do it with my wife next to her, it comforts me to feel her close to her.
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
CAC: Yes, but not as much as crime fiction. I'm trying to read more poetry.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
CAC: The last novel of Bret Easton Ellis the destruction. He is another of my favorite authors and I am enjoying it a lot. And I'm typing a novel that will initially be titled Ammonia.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
CAC: The editorial landscape is in boiling, is published a lot and quite good. I never thought my novels would be published, it was all by accident. Present There are no more jungle left to return to a prize and that's where it all started. However, I hope I can continue to do so.
- AL: How are you handling the current moment we live in? Do you find it inspiring for future stories?
CAC: The reality of each moment can always inspire a good black novel. The human being is an animal so perverse and at the same time so fascinating that it will always generate new stories.