Photography: Antonio Cabanas. Facebook profile.
Read, write or talk about Anthony Cabanas is to see, imagine and evoke the most fascinating Ancient Egypt. I came to him thanks to one of his best-selling titles (they all are), Son of the desert, I already stayed there. Today I share this interview with him and him I appreciate your kindness and the time dedicated to tell us about your favorite books and authors, your next projects (with a new novel in sight) and his vision of the most current panorama.
Anthony Cabanas
With a trajectory filled hits critical and public literature, and translated into several languages, this excomandante of Iberia, with thousands of hours of flight around the world, one day it was subdued by Ancient Egypt. On passion has made him study everything that has to do with him, and since 1990 he has been a member of the Spanish Association of Egyptology. The result, moreover, has been a series of books and unforgettable stories such as:
- The thief of tombs
- Pharaoh's conspiracy
- The secrets of Osiris
- The millennial dream
- El son of the desert
- The secret of the Nile
- The way of the gods
- Isis's tears
Interview with Antonio Cabanas
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
ANTONIO CABANAS: I do not remember which was el First of allWell, I started reading when I was very young. I have always had a book in my hands, although from that time I felt a special affection for The island of the treasure o The book of the jungle, and also by the works of Julio Verne. And la first story that I wrote was in the school It was a drafting about him honor.
- AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
AC: Without a doubt The Count of Montecristoby Alejandro Dumas. It seemed to me like a play of adventure in which all the feelings of human nature were shown.
- AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
AC: There is muchos writers that I like. In general, I am fond of classical and great novelists of the XIX, although I have a special predilection for Perez Galdos.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
AC: As fictional characters I would have liked know a Edmundo dantes, and can bring to life al Mr. Hyde from the great Stevenson.
- AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
AC: A quiet place where I can abstract myself.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
AC: Leo to any time and I write in the afternoon and early morning.
- AL: What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?
AC: I believe that an author is the result of all the books he has read. They always leave a mark.
- AL: Your favorite genres besides historical?
AC: I read everything: books test, novels of any genre that have a good narrative. As I said before, I like the classics, whom I never tire of rereading.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
AC: I usually read some books at once. I just finished History of two cities, by Dickens, and I'm reading again The Cartuja of Parma, of Stendhal, and a biography of the lord Churchill. I have a new project literary about him Ancient Egypt and I'm starting to work on it.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
AC: Complicated. So many works are published that not enough space for all. Many good authors are lost for this reason.
- AL: Is the moment of crisis that we are experiencing being difficult for you or will you be able to keep something positive for future novels?
AC: Like everyone else, I try to adapt to the circumstances in the best possible way. I declare myself a furious follower of the human being. Positive notes have come from him in a setting that strikes me as disturbing.