Rose Liksom is a Finnish writer and artist born as Anni Ylävaara, in Ylitornio, in 1958. His latest published novel, The Colonel's Wife, is translated for the first time into Spanish. I appreciate a lot that you have had a few minutes to dedicate to this interview in which he tells us a little about his books, writers and new projects.
Rose Liksom
Study anthropology and social sciences at the universities of Helsinki, Copenhagen and Moscow. His parents were reindeer herders and he lived in various communes. And besides being a writer, she is painter y film-maker. He has written novels, short stories and children's books and has received the Finland Prize and the Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy. His works have been translated into nineteen languages.
The Colonel's Wife
A Finnish woman, already in her old age, tells us the story of her life. How he fell in love in his youth with a friend of his father, a colonel who sympathized with him Nazism, and got caught in a violent marriage and destructive as Europe prepared for war.
Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
ROSE LIKSOM: The first book I read was moomin-bookby Tove Jansson. He must have been about 7 years old. And I wrote my first story at 21. It seemed to me that I was so old already!
- AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
RL: It was The painted bird, Jerzy kosinski. It really made a strong impression on me and I still remember that feeling.
- AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
RL: My favorite author still living is German. Jenny erpenbeck. And among the classics, the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
RL: I would like to meet Anna Kareninaby Tolstoi.
- AL: Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?
RL: Let your subconscious flow.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
RL: Deep in the forest. I love spending time there.
- AL: Other genres that you like?
RL: Fiction and non-fiction.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
RL: I am reading Sputnik, the 1999 novel by Japanese Haruki Murakami. And I'm working on my new novel, which is almost ready now.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
RL: High-quality novels cannot be overly published. They will survive from one decade to the next.
- 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 novels?
LR: Well i'm fine. As I am working on a new novel, I have time to concentrate Quite. We have wonderful forests here in Finland, a fantastic nature And the sea is right in front of me So like I say, I usually write and spend time on them.