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Gervasio Posadas has a new novel. The Uruguayan author has published this month The merchant of death, a story set in Monte Carlo between the wars and based on real events, the second starring the journalist José Ortega. Today grant us this interview where he tells us a little about everything. Thank you very much for your time and kindness.
Gervasio Posadas
Born in 1962 in Uruguay and, before dedicating himself to literature, he worked in some of the main companies of advertising. He is a scriptwriter and collaborates in different media in addition to being a blogger in the Huffington Post. He also leads the online creative writing workshop I want to write.com next to his sister Carmen Posadas placeholder image.
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Debuted with the novel The secret of gazpacho, and continued with Today caviar, tomorrow sardines. Then they came Revenge is sweet and also does not make you fat y Hitler's Mentalist, the first adventure of the journalist José Ortega.
Interview with Gervasio Posadas
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
GERVASIO POSADAS: The first book I read were The adventures of Guillermo. The first story was five or six years old, a comic about a whale and a sardine.
- AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
GP: I think it was They liveby Piers Paul Reed. The boys who were injured on the plane were from my school's rugby team.
- AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
GP: I think the writers I enjoy the most are with Delibes and with Eduardo Mendoza. I love to see how they build a story without the need for big words. Also, of course, Gabriel García Márquez by your imagination and Borges, for his ability to be scholarly without tiring.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
GP: Cyrano de Bergerac. I love the characters full of contrasts.
- AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
GP: I read in any place and circumstance. In order to write needed tranquility and good music.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
GP: I really like write in hotels or hostels. They are very literary sites, full of stories. I have written in monastic inns and the hall of many hotels. It is the only exception that I make to the rule of tranquility that I impose on myself.
- AL: What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?
GP: Besides Delibes and Mendoza, which I have already mentioned before, I really like the English humor from authors like Kingsley Amis, David Lodge or Nick Hornby.
- AL: Other genres that you like?
GP: I especially like the literary novel and history, especially the twentieth century. I've really liked it lately The Europeans, by Orlando Figes.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
GP: I just finished Dog heart by Mikhail Bulgakov. I am very fan of Russian literature of all times, especially of Dostoievski.
As for writing, I don't start anything new until my old novel comes out. The merchant of death has now come out in September and already I'm turning a few ideas.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
GP: It's a increasingly competitive market and concentrating on a progressively smaller number of titles.
Fortunately, desktop publishing platforms they give access to many new writers and allow readers to discover new voices.
- 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?
GP: I think it is a little early to evaluate the impact of this crisis. Interestingly, most of the writers I know feel somewhat blocked in this circumstance. The only positive thing I see at the moment is that is teaching us to live from day to day without making plans.