![]() It may seem strange, but for those who spend their youth reading samurai novels and watching the films of Kurosawa Akira and Yamada Yōji, they become everyday cultural references. It seemed to emerge naturally, so that I don’t feel I chose the setting. I’ve always been drawn to Japanese culture, literature, and history, although I never thought that I would write my first novel about feudal Japan. ![]() In my case, around 20 years ago, before the Japanese literary boom in the West, I went looking for translations of works by authors like Mishima Yukio and Yoshikawa Eiji. Many Spanish writers have started working in genres like fantasy and science fiction, which used to be rare in Spanish literature. GIL Once writers simply got ideas from what was nearest at hand, but now their cultural references have become globalized. INTERVIEWER Why did you decide to set your first novel El Guerrero a la Sombra del Cerezo in Japan? ![]()
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