Juan Herranz 
Japanese literature has two very different views. From the outside we find its emblem in Murakami and we recognize its predecessors Kawabata or Kenzaburo Oé. However, in their own narrative imaginary, the myths of the ill-fated Mishima or Akutagawa are even more powerful references than before ...
The moment always comes when every narrator of historical fictions ends up tackling the current thriller with its added suspense due to the dark setting of remote times. Robert Harris was not going to be an exception. In a society where faith and dogma have banished the ...
From the world of interpretation to literature goes a sublimation, a complete turn for Cristina Higueras. But at the end of the day it is about escaping from the character to give life to new characters. A kind of alchemy where the actor manages to distill himself into a multitude of ...
The youth literature has in Alfredo Gómez Cerdá its author par excellence in Spain. Thousands and thousands of pages of a narrative for young readers who overwhelm his prolific generation. A creative capacity at the height of Stephen King, only turned into a work so that the ...
Thought and humor are much more than irony as the only way of expression. Jean Echenoz is that thinker and writer capable of capturing all the ironies of the world in black on white. Whether in its form of bad joke or sinister comedy ... No wonder ...
It must be tiring to restart a novel. Even being one Juan Bonilla. It should be something like thinking that the original has been lost and that it should be started from scratch, with the mental notes and the outline of a script blurred in all its details. And yet also ...
Stegner fulfilled the stereotype of the literary goldsmith who meticulously constructs, with obsessive neatness in terms of scenes and characters. The stridency is not an option either as a wink to the reader or as a mere slip. Hyperrealism is like that, a carbon copy of life breathed through pores, ...
Historical fiction finds in new values such as Luis Zueco or Luis Montero Manglano (the thing goes by Luises) powerful authors who are consolidating themselves as references of the genre. In the first case, with its fantastic novelistic projections from the tangible of castles or other locations full of history...
Arundhati Roy achieved it the first time, as only the greatest knew how to make their debut film a masterpiece. From Harper Lee who murders nightingales to Salinger with his teenager taking care of the rye, to name two great references. Because the arrival of that book that…
Argentine literary ingenuity, from Borges to Samanta Schweblin, has remained and is manifested by very different voices such as Manuel Puig himself, whom I bring to this space today. Grouping a whole host of great authors by a trait as limiting as nationality can be has its ...
The plethora of writers who to a greater or lesser extent are in charge of narrating about the fascinating Egyptian civilization extends to a large list in each country. Because the ancient world of Egypt, with its legends, but also with its overflowing humanism towards all science or knowledge, offers a multitude ...
At some point, still at an early age, who most who least has experienced the sensation of writing something relevant, a great story or story. However ephemeral the will, the point is that it is enjoyed by conquering new spaces of the imagination between childhood and ...