In line with the recent publication of the novel by Andrés Ibáñez, "Leonís. Vida de una mujer" (Lumen, 2022), whose history spans from 1485 to 1999 with the prominence of Spanish literature and the way of life of Inés de Padilla who...

as a tribute to Virginia Woolf's “Orlando,” never ages and twice changes sex, the author (Madrid, 1961) lends us his time for some brief questions.

Ibáñez is a multifaceted man (Renaissance, some would say), essayist, poet, novelist, musician, script writer, guru, and critic, as well as a professor of Spanish. He is a rare writer and intellectual (in the double sense of scarce and precious) on the Spanish scene due to his handling of fantasy, scarcely present in the generally prosaic realism of the national novel. From his already long career, we can highlight the Ojo Crítico award for World Music (1995), “El mundo en la era Varick” (1999), and the National Critic Award for “Brilla, Mar del Edén” (2014), surely his most important work until this monumental novel “Leonís. Vida de una mujer,” which we discuss with the author.

Read the interview here