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A Peter Feijoo I met him for his Children of the sea, a black story set in Vigo (his hometown) which I really liked. But there is a trick because I have weakness for Galicia and its authors. I was recently talking to Arantza Portable Holders and now I do it with Feijoo, to whom I really appreciate your time, dedication and kindness. Tell us especially a little, since it has a new book, A blue fire.
Interview with Pedro Feijoo
Actualidad Literatura: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
Pedro Feijoo: Well ... The truth is that no, I don't even remember the first that I read (I started reading when I was still very young), nor the first time that I stood in front of a Blank sheet wanting to tell a story ... Now, what I do remember ...
AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
PF:… it is the first book that really impressed me, the first one that drove me to want to write: Polaroid, bull suso.
AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
PF: Buff, the truth is that I am not very fond of these types of questions, because they always end up leaving me in the same position as when they asked me if I loved Mom or Dad more. I have many favorites, and very bad memory, so if I start listing them, I'm sure I end up leaving many out. So what I'm going to tell you is what it was the last one that really impressed me, so much as to even rethink my writing from any possible perspective: Pierre Lemaitre.
AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
PF: I remember one time of my youth, coinciding with a particularly painful life circumstance, in which I would have loved to have close to Dorian Gray. Now, from there to having wished to create any of the admired characters ... My way of being does not allow me to harbor such desires. I am completely unable to imagine myself creating what I admire.
AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
FAQ: At the time of writing, not many, the truth ... I always write by hand, in notebooks medium in size, so once the story has clicked in my head, I can write anywhere, without needing much more than paper and ink. And to that of read… Well neither, now that I think about it. As much, leave me alone.
AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
PF: As I told you, anyone where they can leave me alone.
AL: What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?
PF: As I mentioned in one of the first questions, the first, many years ago, was Suso de Toro, and the last Pierre Lemaitre.
AL: Your favorite genres?
PF: Anyone who totally discovers myself hooked several months later.
AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
FAQ: these novels pulp, those of the string of the kiosk of a lifetime, if today they were released again. And, write ... The truth is that I am not writing anything. For the first time since I started publishing, nine years ago, this is the first time that I can (y needed) stop to rest. Bill process creative de A blue fire it was terrible. Long, hard, very demanding and devastating in more ways than anyone would imagine, so I honestly think that I will not be able to write anything new until my soul has dried up from everything it was exposed to while making this book .
AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
FAQ: Honestly, I couldn't even say it, nor do I think I'm the one to do it. I'm a guy who has always had good luck, perhaps even without deserving it, so I do not believe that my case is so extrapolated as to put me here to lecture based on my experience. If I was stupid enough to judge the surroundings from what I have experienced, I would not be being fair to the thousands and thousands of authors that every day they leave their eyes on the paper or the computer screen, and their hands calling at the gates of a Editorial so overwhelmed for the offer received that you can barely lend them la attention they undoubtedly deserve.