With 'Parabere' writers Andrea Cabrera Kñallinsky and Aldo García Arias were finalists for the Café Gijón Novel Prize, breaking at least two taboos.

First, that the prize had never had a finalist book, and second, that their work is over 500 pages long, when almost all the winners submit works that don't exceed 300. The novel tells the life of María Mestayer, a "tear-and-rip" Bilbao native who wrote thousands of recipes in various books and newspapers.

We interviewed the authors by phone. One from Madrid, the other from Tenerife, and that's how they wrote the book. They divided the chapters and emailed them back and forth to correct the parts the other had written. The process was fluid and enriching. In the novel, one sees the love they have put into a unique person who lived in the first half of the last century.

Read the interview here