Photograph of the author: Claudia Catalán.
Claudia Catalan She is from Barcelona and has a degree in Literary Studies. She is now engaged in creative direction and writing. She has debuted with The red door. Thank you so much your time and kindness to this interview where he talks about her and other topics.
Claudia Catalan- Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest novel is titled The red door. What do you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?
CLAUDIA CATALAN: The idea arose one of the many afternoons in which my grandmother was telling me stories about her childhoodIn fact, many of the anecdotes that appear in the novel are portrayed as she remembers them. Then the story took its own course, shaping the story of that little girl, who lives in a rural village of La Mancha and that it has a very special connection with the nature. She sees beyond the crude world of war in which she has had to live.
Accompanied by a series of very special characters, who often ask us where the boundary between reality and fantasy, follows a path of learning with which I believe that many, today, we can identify.
- TO THE: You can go back to that first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
CC: I remember reading The Little Prince, it was a tiny edition, having it on the bedside table and dreaming about it, I remember his illustrations and how my imagination got lost in them, even though at that time I didn't fully understand the story. But the one who, without a doubt, awakened in me a voracious hunger for reading that has not been quenched since then was Harry Potter. I owe a lot to JK Rowling.
And the first story I remember writing was in Primary, a story about a crystal blue of a stained glass window Gaudi House.
- AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
DC: There are so many great writers that I admire… Oscar Savage, Henry James, Iris Murdoch, Ana Maria Matute, Benedetti, Machado… I repeat, so many!
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
CC: I would have liked to have had a long chat at dawn by the pool with Gatsby and I would have loved to create the Wonderland of Alice.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
CC: I only have two obsessions for writing, although quite pronounced: don't interrupt me and have instrumental music in the background to immerse myself in my bubble.
As for reading, I don't think any in particular, I can read almost anywhere, in any way, at any time... I open the book and disappear in the world.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
DC: I don't have a fixed schedule to write. When I'm immersed in a project, my goal is to dedicate part of the day to it, but without setting a start time and an end time, because I know it doesn't work that way. The three or six hours can be both at noon and at dawn.
And to this day, my favorite place to write is, without a doubt, at mi habitation. I feel in a very intimate and protected space, which is what my body now asks of me. But half of The red door, for example, was written in a corner of my favorite coffee shop.
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
CC: Without a doubt! I love the poetryIt inspires and excites me. Also the boobs pure, that overflowing imagination always leaves me in awe.
- What are you reading now? And writing?
CC: On my bedside table there is now a collection of poems by courtney peppernell and the novel by Alejandro Palomas, A country with your name.
I just launched my website studiomirada.com, and I am enjoying creating material for the subscription newsletter, especially reflections, some poetic prose, small opinion articles, visual poetry... For me it is a pleasure to explore different artistic forms with which to express myself and share.
And… there is a new project long extension in the oven.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
CC: I didn't have to make up my mind because there was no question, I was very clear that I wanted to do it and that he was going to do it, there was no option of no for an answer. And I think that was the key to achieving it. I am not revealing anything to anyone if I say that it is not easy to publish, that the amount of talent out there is enormous and the amount of manuscripts even greater. Carving out a niche seems like an impossible mission when you're as small as I am, who only know me at home. But if you believe in yourself and what you offer, you have to insistinsist and insist.
- 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 stories?
CC: It's being me very difficult. In many ways. But also is working a great learning and I want to stay with that, I want to continue getting something positive, because it seems to me that we all need to focus on it that way to get ahead. If you want to see it, there is always something to be thankful for, even in the worst of times. But you have to want to see it.