Photography: Jerónimo Tristante, (c) Javier Carrión.
Jerónimo Tristante He has a new novel published. Its titled 36 and in it recover republican lieutenant Juan Antonio Tornell starring. In this interview He tells us about her and some other things. I am very grateful for the time and kindness that she has dedicated to me.
Jerónimo Tristante
Murcian from 69, works as secondary school teacher after having studied Biology at the University of Murcia. he is also columnist in the newspaper The truth. But above all he is known for his successful literary facet with the creation of a character as popular as the nineteenth-century inspector Victor Ros, protagonist of a series of 6 novels that also had a adaptation to television series on TVE in 2015 and to which the actor Carles Francino gave life. The author gave his approval to this adaptation and the chosen cast.
Their titles are: The mystery of Casa Aranda, from 2006, which was his first great success with critics and readers and made it easier for him to continue writing The case of the black widow, The enigma of Calabria street, The last night of Victor Ros, Víctor Ros and the great Spanish gold robbery y Víctor Ros and the secrets of the overseas.
sad He has also written novels with the recent past of Spain in the background. Among others are The red in the blue, a story of adventure and espionage that takes place in the Civil War, The treasure of the Nazirites, novel that takes place in the Middle Ages with the Knights Templar as protagonists. 1969, also of noir genre and set in late Francoism. It's never too late, which won the XLIX Ateneo de Sevilla Novel Prize, or Secretos, Logroño Novel Prize.
It has been translated into several languages, such as Italian, French, Portuguese or Polish. and andn 2023 plans to publish The letter, his first foray into youth literature.
Jeronimo Tristante — Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your new novel is titled 36. What do you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?
JERONIMO TRISTANTE:It is a prequel de The Valley of Shadows in which I wanted to tell what happened to Tornell, one of its protagonists, during the war, in November 36, some really complicated dates.
- AL: Can you go back to that first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
JT: I think it must have been The five or The Seven Secretsbeing very young. The first story I remember was a story, he was already an adult, he would have been 23 or 24 years old.
- AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
JT: my favorite is definitely Wilkie collins. Also Doyle and Paul Auster.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
JT: Undoubtedly, Sherlock Holmes, the best detective of all time.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
JT: No, I'm easy, I write with him portable anywhere. It's easy for me to do it. I enjoy.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
JT: Better early in the morning i'm a daytime guy and when the late night approaches my performance drops a lot.
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
JT: Fundamentally the historical novel, also essay, biographies and military history.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
JT: Now i just finished Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time for my book club and I'm with a little thing from Agatha Christie which I have read very little.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
JT: It is pretty bad, the truth. I decided because friends and acquaintances who read my novels, the first ones, encouraged me to do so.
- 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?
JT: It hasn't been easy, but it hasn't been insurmountable either. has been everything very dystopian, we will realize what we have experienced in a few years.