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Peter Cervantes has a new novel, The boy with the coils, after Hits y Three minutes of color, winners of Awards de Novel Cartagena Negra and of Mediterranean letters for the best crime novel. Before they were also Breakwater y They don't let us be children. The Barcelona writer has granted me this interview where he talks about everything a little: life experiences, books and writers preferred, manners when reading or writing or your opinion about him editorial panorama current. Land I really appreciate your time and kindness by serving me.
Interview with Pere Cervantes
Actualidad Literatura: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
Pere Cervantes: I doubt between Ivanhoe y The island of the treasure. The first story which i wrote as such it was in 2004, a currently discontinued novel titled Three hundred and sixty six mondays. In it he related part of my experience as an observer of peace from the Balkans. Someday I will return in a literary way to that conflict that I experienced so closely.
AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
PC: Well, back to the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, The island of the treasure. I guess at a very young age that book led me to those worlds so far away mine and that, nevertheless, I could imagine them in detail, even touching them with all the elements that the narration gave me. Adventures, mystery and a rhythm that, despite the passage of time, I have not been able to forget. Stevenson wrote it in order to entertain his son and what he did was entertain humanity. What more could you want!
AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
PC: I couldn't have one. Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma, Vazquez Montalban, John Marse, Arthur Perez-Reverte, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Don Winslow, Paul Auster, Emmanuel Career, Vargas Llosa, Pink Huntsman, Tanya French, Harlan CobenJoyce Carol Oates, Lewis Landman… What do I know. There are dozens of writers who make me happy with their stories.
AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
PC: The Preppy of Marsé. Although I think I have already met some of them.
AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
PC: Just be silent or isolated with headphones and classical music or jazz background.
AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
PC: I read whenever I can and wherever. But it is evident that my home It is the best of places for it. Both in the living room, as in me office and in summer in the garden.
AL: What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?
PC: All the ones I mentioned before as well as a couple dozen more that I haven't cited. I sincerely believe that a writer is first of all a reader, a sponge of life and literature. Most of us receive many influences, consciously or unconsciously. "I am a sea of influences whose literary rivers are nameless", heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
AL: What are your favorite genres?
PC: The black genre has always attracted me more than others, but I nourish myself with all kinds of narrative. Labels neither scare nor attract me. I look at other things when choosing a reading. It seems to me absurd that criterion of considering a writer of more or less quality based on gender who usually write.
AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
PC: Right now I'm reading Black gold, Dominique manotti, Versatile Editorial. I am enjoying it. Y I am documenting myself for my next novel of which at the moment I prefer to keep el plot and theme en secret.
AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
PC: I'm just a writer who reads a lot and writes what he can. I will not comment on the publishing industry of which I only know the part that touches me. It is evident that the number de publications it is astronomical according to the reading habit that they say we have in Spain. I only know that these last few months I have seen crowded theaters who attend a Book Release and that is one great news with which I stay and celebrate.