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The writer takes the reader back to the eighteenth century with the phrase “away from Louisiana.”
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“Life is literary raw material,” says Cristina Campos, a finalist, author of Married Women’s Stories.
“Promotions separate the novel from you and it is a necessary process of adapting to being without it.” This came last Wednesday by Writer and linguist Luz Gabbas In Club FARO – Presa Ibérica newspaper, in addition to this argument – the second leg of promotion campaign subordinate Winners and Finalists From the Planeta Awards 2022. gypsum (Monzón, Huesca, 1968) Received this prestigious award with Far from LouisianaWhile Christina Campos (Barcelona, 1975) was the finalist with “Married women stories. At the Marco Museum in Vigo, they both spoke with journalist Amaia Mauleón about the winning novels, the creative process and their expectations for the future. They both realized that receiving such an award is a source of satisfaction, but also a great responsibility for their prestige.
Set in the eighteenth century, Away from Louisiana is the fifth novel by the Huesca writer and tells the love story between an American Indian and a French Creole woman in Louisiana, a region that lasted for forty years at the end of the eighteenth century, which was a Spanish colony, an unknown period requiring Extensive documentation work. “Still, digging here and there, you end up finding it -He said-. Documenting is hard work, but it’s very exciting and you learn a lot from it. Not everything is in the smartest history books.
According to Gabes, in the case of the historical novel, it is not only necessary to be faithful to the true facts “then there is Adherence to politenessHe noted that everything you read had to melt so it wouldn’t dominate the story.
Jabbs confirmed it All of his novels stem from a hunch. The idea that originated in Far From Louisiana was the idea of writing about this effort. “I was thinking about this idea when they offered me to write a story about this time and when I discovered it I realized it was the story I needed to tell a story of effort, for people advancing in the most difficult circumstances. This seemed hopeful to me,” he commented.
What you need to do is to develop society so that masculine and feminine feelings are close to both & rdquo;
For Planet Winner, stories should make the reader think and that’s what she intends to do in her novels. He also called for disregarding the gender of the literary author and to stop assuming that the writer is the best at portraying male and female characters. “Will we close ourselves and only women will write about women and men and men? The writer enters the human soul. What he has to do is develop society so that male and female feelings are close to both, said Gabás, who announced that once the promotion of this novel was over, he would return to solitude to write a new story.
Cristina Campos no. The Planeta Award winner for Stories of Married Women has confirmed that she will be returning to cinema because she needs time before she shuts herself down again in writing. In her second novel, the Catalan screenwriter and director talks about contemporary marriages, the marital routine and the complexity of desire, pleasure, and feminine intimacy through the stories of her protagonists, Gabriela, Silvia, Cosima and Eugenia, four married women, mothers, economics. They have an independent and stable life, but there is also a lingering resentment in it that will end up waking up and change their romantic relationships. Inspired by real life, the novel delves into four true stories so close to the writer that led to their eventual consequences. “Life is a literary raw material.detained.
She pointed out that each chapter is a reference to her passion for cinema, as she bears the title of some of the films that distinguished her and owes her. I tried to write from the truth. I took off my psychic clothes in this novel, he admitted.
Married Women’s Stories is a novel about love and heartbreak, about fidelity and infidelity, but above all it is a novel about brave women. “A woman must be very brave to be unfaithful. A man does not experience infidelity with the same guilt as a woman because he knows how to separate sex from love. He explained that we do not “.
Not only did Gabbas and Campos unite with the Planeta Award. They both have novels in which they first appeared and are adapted for the big screen. The first, Palmeras en la nieve (2012), was directed by Fernando Gonzalez Molina three years later and starred Mario Casas. Second, ‘Lemon bread with poppy seeds (2016), made into a film by director Benito Zambrano last year who worked on his script – which was nominated for Goya – Campos for two years with the “Solas” director. “I’ve been a frustrated screenwriter for twenty years. It was my chance,” Campos commented.
Gibbs offered to offer a helping hand only if they needed it. The rest is left to the book. “Film and literature are two different languages that complement each other well. Gagas said everything is culture and the movie doesn’t necessarily have to be the same as the book & rdquor. Only time will tell if we are facing two films in the future.
From 18th Louisiana to Barcelona in the 21st Century
What do “away from Louisiana” have in common? and ‘Stories of Married Women’? Its female characters, strong and brave, who tell attention-grabbing, moving and inspiring stories. Luz Gabás’ novel blends historical and fictional characters in an unbreakable love story, while Cristina Campos’ novel is a contemporary one set in Barcelona is about women who love and desire.Both readings are an extraordinary reflection on the social changes of the past two hundred years.Author of Far From Louisiana” He travels to these American lands to tell the story of Ichkat, son of a Kasascia chieftain, and Suzette Gerard, a young Creole woman from New Orleans who will live a love story plagued by all kinds of twists and turns at the end of the 18th century. Century and this delves into the conflicts that built the American continent. In Married Woman, Christina Campos traces the story of four married women, Gabriella (45), Silvia (40), Cosima (30) and Eugenia (65), in a novel that plays with the comparison of the sexes. It explores contemporary marriages, the marital routines and the boredom of everyday life. Also in female desire and how it fades in marriage. motherhood, which she addresses from different cousins; friendship, because its heroes are friends for life; and the world of journalism and literature, because the three work for a women’s magazine “Le Femme & rdquor;
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