This week we interviewed the journalist and writer Luis del Val (Zaragoza, 1944). He studied Teaching, But from a very young age he opted for journalism and his professional career has been closely linked to the world of radio, which began at Radio Zaragoza., He later worked at Radio Gandía, Radio Youth and Study 7 from Radio Zaragoza. In addition, has collaborated with the Aragonese edition of Pueblo, Diary 16, Interview, Time or The newspaper of Aragón. He was director of Radiocadena Española between 1980 y 1982. He has received awards such as the Golden Microphone from the Association of Radio and Television Professionals in 1989, the Ondas Award in 1990 and in 2002 (to the best innovative journalist), and among the literary: the Café Gijón Novel Prize, the Ateneo de Sevilla Novel Prize, or the Logroño Novel Award. With his latest novel The perpetual transition has achieved the First Samaniego International Solar Novel Prize.
What proportion would you say there is in The perpetual transition of history, romanticism and intrigue?
I believe that to a 33% of each one, and the 1 for the remaining hundred, let each one put whatever they want.
The fact that the central characters are a septuagenarian and a thirty-year-old, In addition to the generational difference, Is it due to some personal wink??
Obey what, indeed, There is a performance between two generations that I wanted to bring together precisely in a common task.
Do the Spanish secret services keep uncomfortable secrets from the time of the Transition that it is better not to remove??
I believe that all the secret services of all democratic countries keep uncomfortable secrets and, as the quote at the beginning of the book says, We are not allowed to know everything and maybe it is better.
But if they knew, Would they be of interest to today's society?, would be given importance?
Don't know, I think that at this moment, so superficial and so frivolous, I suppose not..
Tell us about that quote of yours that I read about women being more interesting from a literary point of view..
Yes because they are more complex, The man is a person who projects himself outwards and the woman is a being who projects himself outwards and inwards and is much more predictable.. When I talk to my daughter, who belongs to the other generation and we love each other very much and she is also an editor and we have the same job, I talk to her an average of 4 o 5 minutes, when he talks to my wife they are between 17 y 20 minutes, because? Because they have a much more complex and richer vision of reality, we go to our thing, this, the other..., On the other hand, women go down to detail, and in the detail and in the nuances is sometimes the life that goes unnoticed by men. It seems that I have not convinced you.
Yeah, Yeah, I was thinking about the conversations I have with men and women..
In what we call loving relationships, the male is a male that ancestrally is a pollinating male, What is the poly male? The mandate of the species is to pollinate the more females the better., That's where those adultery problems come from., we have recently become monogamous, For hundreds of thousands of years the male has been a pollinator, any female that made herself available because it was good for the reproduction of the species.. The woman, on the other hand, is monogamous., much more monogamous, It is the one that takes care of the spice, is the one who worries. How would I tell you? If in a Valencia Barcelona or Valencia Real Madrid cup final the men were all over Valencia and all of Barcelona or all of Madrid bathing the children and there was a penalty, the percentage of drowned children would be magnificent because they would go to see the replay of the play, whether or not they would protest the referee, They would scream in front of the television and the children would drown in the bathtub..
Do you think the average reader will be interested in that recent stage of our history called Transition?
Well, it's possible that not, But when I write a novel I do it because I have a need to tell a story., I don't think about the readers, If I thought about the readers, if I took the historical novel, I would write a historical novel., If I took the erotic novel I would write an erotic novel…
What does it mean to have won the first edition of the Samaniego International Solar Novel Award??
The opportunity to have an extraordinary promotion that publishing the book in a normal way would not have had. I believe that writers like me who are lucky enough to have no problems publishing, because they admit them to us, but we do not have the promotion the relevance of the appearance accompanied by a prize and what does that mean?, fundamentally means, first, that our regular readers find out that we have published a novel that they would otherwise find out about and that thanks to the promotion we can get readers who did not know us. GINÉS VERA
