Photography: Nerea Riesco, Facebook profile.
Nerea Riesco She was born in Bilbao and has a very broad profile as a journalist, writer, editor, communicator and trainer. She has written novels, stories, poems and manuals. Some of her published titles of her are Mondays at the Ritz, The Gates of Paradise, Tempus, The Ivory Elephant, Ars Magica or The Country of Butterflies, with which he won the IX Young Athenaeum Award of Seville. now present The city under the moon. Thank you so much your time, attention and kindness to this interview where he talks about her and many other topics.
Nerea Riesco—Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest novel is titled The city under the moon. What do you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?
NEREA RISK: The title is already a statement of intent, because “the city” is the narrator. the idea arose watching a documentary about a true story. They found a corpse of which nothing was known except its sex. Interestingly, if the victim is not known, it is quite difficult to discover the murderer. That piqued my interest, and I thought I wanted to write a novel around that idea. Later, during a business lunch with my editor, he told me that there was a luxury ocean liner in the twenties of the last century, which made the Seville-New York route. And that's how I decided time and space. The rest is already The city under the moon.
- TO THE: You can go back to that first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
NR:The first "grown-up" book I read was The Little Prince. I had seven years and he was the first to read with so many letters and so few illustrations. I loved. In fact, every time I go to a new country, I buy the indigenous edition of The Little Prince. It's one of those books that they change every time you read them.
and I wrote my first story more or less to same age. The story revolved around a family of gnomesthat illustrious myself with collages. She is seen to have been quite influenced by David the gnome. And that she was much more artistic than now.
- AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
NR: Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
NR: The Viscount Valmont, Dangerous friendships.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
NR: Silence absolute. tea and my cats next to.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
NR: I am quite organized. I write in office hours, from 8 to 14 hours. And always in the tranquility of me property.
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
NR: There is no genre that I don't like.
- What are you reading now? And writing?
NR: A mage from Earthsea, by Ursula LeGuin.
I can't count at this moment what I am writing, but you will see it shortly. I'm having so much fun.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
NR: Well, my first book of short stories was published in 2002, somewhat inadvertently, while I was still in journalism school. And the first novel won the Young Athenaeum Award Seville in 2004. I never thought that what I wrote would not be published. It's my profession.
- 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?
NR: Everything you live serves. Emotions are always the same, no matter what the years go by, even the centuries. Fear, love, revenge, hate, bravery, greed… we have all felt them. The only thing that changes is the story that triggers them. And that's where we writers are. We are vampires of emotions (own and others).