Eloy Moreno (Castellón de la Plana, 1976) Graduated in Technical Engineering in Management Informatics. He currently works as a computer scientist at the Castellón de la Plana City Council although he is better known for his role as a writer., especially after self-publishing his first novel The green gel pen. The novel has been translated into Catalan, Italian and Dutch as well as recently Taiwanese. Onda Cero Castellón Award 2011 for the effort made in the dissemination of The Green Gel Pen, It was also a finalist for the Valencian Critics Awards 2012 in the narrative section. What I found under the couch It was his second novel published in September 2013. He has also written several short stories., between them The growing bed with which he won the II Short Story Contest 2008 of Casal Jove de Castelló. Or those collected in the book Stories to understand the world, edited at the end of 2014.
Why did you propose The gift with a father and a daughter, with a story and a story?
Because that's how I end every day with my daughter., with a story, the story is not, but the story does. So every day with my girl I end with a story, That's why I thought it was a good way to start a book., start with a story, the story is the book itself.
What part of reality is there in this book beyond that of the father and his daughter or the IT profession of one of the characters??
Apart from that, what is most mine is the relationship between parents and children, especially those situations like, For example, 'I see my father all day, but I haven't told him I love you', and some situations that are as everyday as when you take a child to school and you don't talk to him during the trip..., happens many times, They are very everyday, very real, they are in the book, but they are stories that are in any person's life.
How important have readers been and do they be to you before and after publishing this? The gift?
It is made of many people, Many times I ask things on Facebook, for example, and they tell me stories and I capture them., I rely a lot on people, I have translated them or set them in the novel.
The musician asks the protagonist for a song, although this is more to swallow what is heard on the radio, Any special songs that evoked you while writing this book??
Lots and lots, I have a list on Spotify, I haven't posted it for a while where is all the music I've been listening to, Where is, for example, Ben Howard?, one of the musicians that I love, I am going to publish it so that you can listen to it while reading the book, also with the music that I have been listening to, so many.
I like that on The Island “don't be much about credit cards or banks”. Tell us something about, if possible.
The island is like that question of 'what would you like to be when you grow up?'?, the island is like someone who has grown up to be that thing, which is very rare nowadays because everyone who grows up to that, we don't even remember; The island is like that of someone who has managed to achieve their dreams there.
Comment this sentence to me: “I realized that that moment in life had arrived when every minute the world begins to unravel for us.”.
And, Because there comes a time in life when, they say, more absences are collected than moments, ¿no?; because there are things that begin to fall apart, you have done many things but, For example, People around you die or a thousand things die and there comes a moment when your world falls apart - there it says the world, but it refers to the world of each person-, and you have to see if you redo it or let yourself get carried away with that loss..
A character listening to his father, American cinema lover, evokes: “The plot, the plot is what is important”, it's true, it is?
The plot is everything, the same story told in a different way, with weft or without weft, that is, a story told with a plot, simply changing the times for the best, changes the story completely.
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