Care Santos was born in 1970 in Mataró (Barcelona), where he lives. He began writing with 8 years and always knew that would not do otherwise. At 14 she won her first writing contest and at 25 he published his first book of stories. has published 6 novels, 6 story books, 2 books of poetry and a number of novels for young people and children. In juvenile literature is one of the most widely read authors has been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Lithuanian and Korean. He was founder and president for eight years of the English Association of Young Writers.
currently teaches writing workshops, works as a literary critic for the newspaper El Mundo and spends the entire time he has left to take care of her three children, in the words of the author herself, are his best work. His latest novel, closed rooms, was released on 8 March.
- How and when did you know you wanted to be a writer?
"Always. I remember wanting something else. At age 10 I wrote my first novel.
- Why did you become a writer?
"I have thought many times and I have not very clear. For years I thought I started writing because I could not bear to life escape me and I needed to retain and out. Or write to retain what I love about life. Or to exorcise my demons. Or to invent a life less boring. Or to try to understand something. Writing always involves answering questions that do not know you had.
- Where seek and find inspiration?
-In anything. Even the flight of a fly is inspiring. The inspiration comes from within, never outside.
- Are you a maniac at the time of writing: you do it at the same time, same place, still some kind of ritual or else you just go with the inspiration, wherever you are?
"I have many rituals, more and more ... I write with music by Bach, with a lit candle on the desk, now in the morning, although I prefer the night, I isolate myself in a monastery to begin and finish my novels, I never read a novel as I write (but test or other gender) ...
- How would you define closed rooms?
"As the novel that has cost me more to write. While working on it, I often thought I had gotten into a big project that I came. I gave up for lost twice, and both started again. Now that I see published is a dream come true.
- Is there anything autobiographical in this novel?
"In all my novels are much autobiographical, but hidden under that mask and misleading kind of fiction, under which I am very sheltered. Only those who know me really well (very few) are able to find pieces of myself that is always in everything I write.
- What is the best and the worst you've heard of closed rooms?
-which is read in a weekend. Whereas almost 500 pages, is a great compliment.
- How do you come up with a story as historical but also current, which appears both fictional and real, real?
-I am interested in the past does not in itself, but seen from the present. And I am also concerned about the likelihood. The fiction must be believable. And some past is not without some real characters. So are there. While, yes, making clear what is real and what not.
- What is your favorite character or characters?
"I feel a predilection for the couple Rodolfo, Maria del Roser, I think are the most modern of the Lax family, but are also the biggest. I identify with the casual way see the world.
- What would you tell someone to read closed rooms?
"I have not very clear. It gives me bad to sell myself. I think a lot to say and at the end, I would not tell anything. Reading should never be imposed.
- What do you put into this story?
-The "thesis" of the novel is contained in its dedication: to the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of my children, they will not know who I was. Sometimes rebuilding the recent past is an impossible task. This idea is the genesis of this novel and throughout the book.
- What has been the work of documentation?
-Comprehensive. A year of reading and archive. Very satisfactory and completely addictive, yes.
- And the writing?
"At times, very difficult. Other, very stimulating. When I got to unlock the history and the narrative voice, writing was a joy after another.
- What are you working on book project?
"I round an idea for another novel, but I let it sit a bit and use to document. In the documentation you realize sometimes if the idea is worth or not worth it, and in this case I have not yet discovered.
- What do you look for when reading?
-A-ask novelists like lovers, who know more than me, which surprised me, seduce me. And if you know more than me, at least it seems.
- What to write? Seeking
thrill, but not exclusively. I think that a novel must have a claim of style, crafted a story that aspires to some originality, some flesh and blood characters, believable. There are many things. I'm afraid I'm very self-demanding.
- What are your favorite writers?
- So many! The could be sorted by alphabetical order, if you say all the. Although I always end up going back to my header poets: Machado (Antonio), Guillén, Salinas ...
- What you find it easy to write things you know or go with the imagination?
-A mixture of two things: apply the imagination to what they already know.
- What has been your personal experience in publishing and, in general, in the literary and publishing world?
"I worked hard, but I have gone wrong. Like many people, I posted too soon. This is not a skill that can be done in haste, but this is learned later.
- How do you see the present and the future of English publishing market?
"I am optimistic. I think it reads more than ever. It publishes many good things. Internet has made our time in the golden age of reading.
- What about the coexistence of the book of paper and electronic?
"That is wonderful. And that will last many years.
- How is your relationship with the Internet, new technologies, blogs or social networking?
"I'm very active surfer and completely addicted. I keep a blog for years, I'm normal social networks. I find great windows that look out to the world.
This is the website of Care Santos and this his blog .
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