Photography: Graziella Moreno, Facebook profile.
Grace Moreno she is from Barcelona He graduated in Right and currently works in a criminal court from Barcelona, but at the same time he always found time to write because he started doing it when he was a child. Her first title was published in 2015, evil games, then followed The Forest of the Innocents, Dry flower, invisible, the spider game and now it arrives City animals don't cry. In this interview he talks about her and other topics. I really appreciate her time and kindness.
Graziella Moreno — Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest published novel is titled City animals don't cry. What can you tell us about her and where did the idea for her come from?
GRAZIELLA MORENO: City animals don't cryIs a thriller legal set in Barcelona. Its City of Justice, where most of the capital's courts are located, has inspired the cover because it is the setting in which the plot unfolds, along with the legal offices and lawyers, the true protagonists of the novel .
My intention is reflect on the values of justice and truth, from the point of view of lawyers and the strategies they use to defend their client in the criminal field. As one of the characters in the novel says, the idea of justice is beautiful, but the reality is different. The defense of the client is above all, above the truth, a value that only interests society, not the lawyer: his goal is to convince the judge that his client is innocent regardless of whether he is or not. I wanted to focus on a case in which a woman's complaint against her lover mobilizes lawyers from both sides to defend their clients, and at the same time, I create characters who have their own lives. I talk about love, revenge and ambition. In short, of the human being.
- AL: Can you remember any of your first readings? And your first writing?
GM: As a child I read Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Enid Blyton and many others. I wrote horror stories and I remember a police novel that I titled Murder in an elevator. It would be fun to read it now, but I don't keep it.
- AL: A leading author? You can choose more than one and from all periods.
GM: The list is very long. To put only three: Franz KafkaRafael chirbes and Umberto Eco.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
GM: Clara, one of the protagonists of The cum and the shadows, by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
GM: May l read anywhereI isolate myself quite a bit and nothing bothers me. writing is more difficult. I need more silence and solitude. And time, I'm always short of that.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
GM: Floor read by afternoons and before bed. I write when I can and they leave me
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
GM: Leo all kinds of literature. I think that a writer draws from all genres: romantic, historical, police, horror, or simply narrative. I like everything as long as it is well written and the story catches me.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
GM: I'm reading the Journals 1 and 2 by Rafael Chirbes, and uncle goriotby Honore de Balzac. As for the writing, turning to a couple of projects.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
GM: I do not discover anything if I say that in this country too much is published for the small percentage of readers we have compared to other countries. It would be good if the publishers, especially the large groups, reached an agreement to publish in a more contained way so as not to collapse the shelves. The books last two or three months on the novelty tables and are replaced by as many others who will suffer the same fate.
Writing is telling a story as well as possible, creating worlds, characters that are real. And none of that would make sense without publishing. That there are readers who read you and enjoy your works is priceless.
- 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?
GM: I don't think the present moment is much more difficult than anything we haven't experienced in the last few years. The human being is characterized by his amazing ability to adapt. In my case, I am a positive person, convinced that we must look forward and that the experiences lived help us to grow.