Tania Juste | Photography: Facebook profile.
Tania Juste is from Barcelona. He graduated in Art History and from those studies comes the title of his latest novel, Love of art. but they are also To flower of skin, the stolen years, The hospital of the poor o Family time. Thank you very much for the time and kindness dedicated to this interview, which he grants us today, where he talks about that love of art and many other topics.
TÀNIA JUSTE — INTERVIEW
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest novel is Love of art. How did it go and where did the idea come from?
TÀNIA JUSTE: This is my sixth novel and I have the honor of having very faithful readers with whom we gradually grow and form a community. Love of art It arises from a great question that began to grow inside me once I finished the Art History degree. She had spent a few years dedicated to the study of artistic movements, years in which I discovered great artists of all times, and slowly I realized that all of them, the ones that appeared in the indexes of the books that were prescribed to us, were hombres. Then that big question arose: Where were the women artists in art history? In the novel that I have written, the protagonists are them, the women artists and those who loved and lived from art. She is a demand for the visibility of women in art.
- AL: Can you remember any of your first readings? And the first story you wrote?
TJ: I remember one of the first adult readings that struck me the most was The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. It was one of those moments where I realized how far beauty in art can take you.
I've been writing stories since I was a child. stories that it never crossed my mind to publish and attempts at youth stories. The first one that I considered good and decided to publish was the novel To flower of skin, for now in Catalan.
- AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
TJ: Merce Rodoreda, Montserrat Roig, Carmen The forest, Irene nemirovsky, Thomas Man, Stefan Zweig… I could continue with some more from the past and other contemporary ones, but the list would not end.
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
TJ: Emmaby Jane Austen.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
TJ: The music. I don't like absolute silence (or noise), so I always write with music (classical, jazz…). A soundtrack that I am making and that accompanies me in the writing of each book.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
TJ: I write in my study construction and also in Libraries, files and places I have to go to document myself.
- AL: Are there other genres that you like?
TJ: I like to read of everything and of all times, and I don't rule out trying other genres and registers in the not too distant future.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
TJ: three books at once, forever. A biography de Mercè Rodoreda (wonderfully written and documented by Mercè Ibarz), a compilation of articles of the great Norah ephron (I do not remember anything) and I just started story of a braid by Anne Tyler.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?
TJ: I am lucky to have him. support from major publishers, both in Catalan and Spanish, as well as my literary agents. Women with whom we form a team and share great complicities. Publishing was a decision that took me years to make and that I don't regret. Every form of art is a dialogue and I feel very well supported by all my readers.
- 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?
TJ: Life is made of great moments and others infinitely sadder. We learn from all of them and this helps us to understand the world a little better and, above all, to understand ourselves. All vital experience is artistic material.