Photography: Antonio Pérez Henares. Twitter profile.
Antonio Perez Henares puts out a new book today: Cow's head, on the figure of the Spanish conqueror of the XNUMXth century. Journalist and writer, his 5th-year career in the media and literature ranges from the most personal and incisive political, social and cultural analysis to the publication of more than 30 books.
Grant me this interview that I appreciate a lot, as well as your kindness and time spent to tell us a little about your favorite books and authors, Its influences or readings y habits of writer. And he also talks about how he sees these times in the panorama editorial.
Antonio Perez Henares
Pérez Henares (Bujalaro, Guadalajara, 1953), known as Chaniit's writer, journalist and travelerThis hobby does not want to leave. From a very young age he started working in the newspaper Pueblo, and has also gone through Time, Opinion, The Razón o Digital Journalist, to cite just a few media outlets.
His trajectory as writer and It is also very extensive, with a work that plays several styles, but with a special predilection for the historical theme, specifically, by the prehistory. Set in it is the trilogy that make up Cloudy, The son of the heron y The last hunter. More titles are The song of the bison, The look of the wolf: The land of Álvar Fáñez.
Also has travel books as A hat for seven trips y The bird of adventure; or tests as The new feudal lords o Nobles and commoners.
Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
ANTONIO PÉREZ HENARES: Well, although it sounds strange, they gave me very young el Quijote. By Reyes. I still lived in my hometown, Bujalaro, and I read it then to a large extent; I liked parts and in others I lost myself and did not understand anything. I have read it after many times and each one I have appreciated more.
Y the first story what I wrote was Views from the Picachuelo. Described the harvest tasks imprinted on my childhood memories. I was second in the National Youth Narrative Award. I had 15 years.
- AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
PHA: The book of the virgin jungles, by Rudyard Kipling. I still have it on an altar. My previous dog, who died last year, was named Mowgli after him.
- AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
APH: I am very Cervantes. Galdós and Delibes to complete my Spanish podium.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
PHA: naoh, the son of the Leopard, the protagonist of The fire war, of the Rosny. From my passion awarded by the prehistory.
- AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
PHA: I read and write in gush, emotionally. If I do not feel that emotion, I neither read nor write.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
APH: Now my cabin of wood in the middle of the mountain, in the Juniper.
- AL: What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?
APH: Many. Now same Juan Slav Galán and Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- AL: Your favorite genres besides historical?
APH: The old and good adventure novels and North American crime novel.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
APH: I am rereading some works by Claudio Sanchez Albornoz. And I write a book of test, very personal .
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
APH: Post to paper I'm afraid it's going to get more difficult. But I always think that whoever really has something to tell ends up achieving it.
- 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?
APH: I think this is more than a crisis. And there are drives and tendencies which they worry me a lot and what do they have to do with freedom, with the Great Orwellian Eye and the dictatorship of the single thought.