Juan Gómez-Jurado: “Soy escritor gracias a Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Tolkien y Stephen King” | EL PAÍS

Juan Gómez-Jurado (Madrid, 1977) is a chaotic reader. The shelves of the desk where he plans his novels are filled with film books, art books, history books, science fiction novels, horror books… He never finds the book he's looking for the first time, but he doesn't care. That's the magic. Along the way, he always finds others that interest him. “For me, books are like a door. This world is very difficult and hard, but when you fall into the words of another, you have a passport that never expires to somewhere else,” he explains excitedly in the video of this episode of En la biblioteca de. For the author of the bestselling Red Queen trilogy—he announced the publication of his new novel, Todo arde, a few days ago, which will be released in October—creation out of nothingness doesn't exist. Since he was a child who sat reading during recess and spent his afternoons in the Moratalaz library, he has been filled with stories, lives, and characters. These have shaped him as a novelist and have awakened different emotions over the years, the same ones he seeks to awaken in his readers today. Subscribe to our channel: http://cort.as/yI0n Visit http://elpais.com More EL PAÍS videos: http://cort.as/YGC9 Follow us on Facebook:   / elpais   Twitter:   / el_pais   Instagram:   / el_pais   #InTheLibraryOf #Literature #Books #Culture #Reading #Writers #InTheLibrary #Booksellers #Libraries #JuanGómezJurado