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Maria Oruña take one unstoppable race and is part of the new batch of brilliant and successful black novel writers that so many joys is giving to the genre. The forest of the four winds is his new book, which was scheduled to be published this month. The Galician-born writer, although she sets her novels in the Cantabrian coast, grant me this interview where he tells us a little about everything. I really appreciate your time, dedication and kindness.
INTERVIEW WITH MARÍA ORUÑA
Actualidad Literatura: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
Maria Oruña: I don't remember the first book that I read, but I can say that my childhood was full of comics: since Zipi and Zape, to Mortadelo and Filemon to the comic book versions of the classics of Walt Disney; and many illustrated stories. The Hollisters, number of books in the Steamboat series… I read at least one a week. The first thing i wrote they weren't stories, but poems. I still have them, but they are very bad.
AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
MO: I love it East of Eden by John Steinbeck (I read it very young, along with those of Barco de Vapor), for all the vectors it dealt with and for the emotion y action that each page contained.
AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
MO: Geez that's the typical question impossible to answer. I like them muchos authors precisely because of different that they are, each one masterful within their own world, even though it is day and night. The other day i read Frankenstein and I was captivated by the enormous talent of Mary Shelley. I like them Pérez Reverte, Pierre Lemaitre, Rosa Montero, Maximo Huerta, Dan Brown, Fred Vargas...
AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
MO: I was amazed, in its day, by the originality and freshness de Lisbeth Salander, from the trilogy Millennium by Stieg Larsson. I think he is a very well built character and absolutely charismatic.
AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
MO: I think not. I usually write, yes, only and exclusively in my officeWell, I have previously made trips and interviews to document myself.
AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
MO: I write in my child's school hours and in the rest of loose times that I tear to the day. To read, any time it's good. Before breakfast, the news. At night, literature.
AL: What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?
MO: I guess all the ones I've read. I have made a point of all of them, even if it was to be clear about what I didn't want to do. When i read to Camilla Lackberg I liked using two voices and two time planes to write a story; and when i read to Dan Brown I was convinced of it magic what could be use Scenarios and real historical facts to create stories.
AL: Your favorite genres?
MO: The things that I like are very heterogeneous. I do not read purist crime novels, but books of suspense, historical… All very varied. I love biographies and autobiographies.
AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
MO: I feel that I can not say itWell, right now I'm reading very specific books to document my next novel. And I am not writing anything. I do not write until I have de whole material, and putting it together can take me between four and six months of work. Afterwards, I write daily.
AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
MO: I think it is complicated because there a lot of material and a lot of new authors. Not easy to filter what can be attractive For the reader, or what stories have the necessary truth and strength to dedicate the effort to them. However, I think you have to persist: if a material is bright, its light ends up being seen somewhere.