Marta Quintín is from Zaragoza and has worked as a journalist at Agencia EFE and Cadena SER. She is also a columnist in El Periódico de Aragón.

She has won the Tomás Seral y Casas short story award several times. Her first novel was Dime una palabra. Then came El color de la luz. Her latest title is La llave de las estrellas. I thank her for this interview where she talks to us about this novel and several other topics.

ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest novel is titled La llave de las estrellas. What can you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?

MARTA QUINTÍN: I tell a story about uprooting, about what it means to lose your home, your roots, and your identity. A theme that is a constant, that remains fully valid throughout the centuries, as can be seen in the two timelines that run parallel, separated by five hundred years and that, however, have serious similarities: the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 and the economic crisis of 2012, in which many people faced evictions, forced migrations...

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