Writers Manuel Rivas, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Luis Landero and José María Merino talk about the state of reading and literature coinciding with the Book Day celebrations.
The best storyteller does not explicitly describe sensations and feelings but uses his or her resources to evoke them. In writing schools, they sum it up like this: show, don't tell. That is why it could be said that among these four people seated at the table a great atmosphere of complicity was created and that they enjoyed their desire to share a moment of conversation among colleagues, but it would be better to explain it this way: the journalist only asked six questions in two hours of interview.
Our cultural supplement is called La Lectura, and we invited the last four winners of the Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas, the recognition of a whole literary career awarded every year by the Ministry of Culture, to talk about reading. José María Merino from León, also an academic of the Spanish Language, won in 2021; Luis Landero from Extremadura won in 2022; Cristina Fernández Cubas from Barcelona won in 2023; and Manuel Rivas from Galicia won last year.
By Pablo Gil and Antonio Heredia
