"It's hard to publish in this country." That's why, when Laura Ferrero (Barcelona, 1984) wrote her first novel, Qué vas a hacer con el resto de tu vida, she changed some things in the text in the editing process just because she was told to change them. "I thought that this way the book was going to sell better, but then, when certain reviews came out, I didn't feel it was so mine. Now it's important for me to respect the things I like in a novel," he explains in the video.
His childhood, as he tells in The Astronauts, was divided between two worlds: his mother's family and his father's. In the eighties, she was the only girl in her class who had divorced parents. In his house there were not many books beyond the encyclopedias, but he can never forget the trip to Madrid with his grandfather in which they ended up walking through the Book Fair: "He was 85 years old and had never taken the AVE, it is a very nice memory".
The writer Laura Ferrero reflects on her profession and the books that have marked her most in this special edition of En la biblioteca de, desde la Feria del Libro de Madrid. Why do you think it's important not to compare yourself to other writers? What nice anecdote unites you with Marta Sanz? What were your first readings?
In the library of is a format of interviews of EL PAÍS in which we have known the Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa, that of novelists such as Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Javier Cercas, Rosa Montero or Julia Navarro, politicians such as José Manuel García-Margallo and Ángeles González-Sinde, or personalities of culture and cinema such as Fernando Trueba, Isabel Coixet, Peridis or Juan Diego Botto, among others.