“I feel like a tightrope walker who could fall at any moment, like a circus artist working without a net. In a novel, you can fail a chapter, you're allowed to, but in a short story there is a tension; a bad paragraph can sink it,” sums up Cristina Fernández Cubas (Arenys de Mar, 1945) about her literature. #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaInquietante (translated)
Fernández Cubas believes that women writers have gained presence in the literary space in recent years and that her position on the list of awardees is a good omen: "I am number seven and it turns out that my [vital] number is seven." #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaEspañola (translated)
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Cristina Fernández Cubas (Barcelona, 81 years old) emphasizes her surprise at the Cervantes and almost without realizing it recounts the arrival of the news as the beginning of a story. #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #Cuentos (translated)
EL PAÍS
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"The seven is my life number, it is a good omen. Of course, it would be better if she were the 23rd woman to receive it. But the situation is changing. Let’s not forget that in Spain we have inherited prejudices from other countries, when here we have had and have top women writers. Not to mention Ms. Emilia [Pardo Bazán]... But there have been top-notch writers: Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, Carmen Laforet...", emphasized Fernández Cubas, who in 2000 dedicated a biography to "Ms. Emilia," as she calls her, a true pioneer of the fantastic and short narrative." #PremioCervantes #CristinaFernándezCubas #LiteraturaFantástica (translated)
The new Premio Cervantes winner, the Catalan writer Cristina Fernández Cubas, explained this Wednesday in Barcelona that when she started to circulate a manuscript with her first four stories, most publishers rejected its publication on the grounds that her tales were "too strange." #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaEspañola (translated)
20 minutos
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It is a recognition of all storytellers. #CristinaFernándezCubas #Literatura #Cuentos (translated)
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I basically dedicate myself to working with dreams and ghosts. #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaEspañola (translated)
LaVanguardia
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National Prize for Literature (2023) and for Narrative (2016), Fernández Cubas receives the Cervantes Award, the culmination of a career dedicated primarily to the short story genre. "I am fundamentally a writer of short stories and, in a way, it is an award to all short story writers. I have dedicated myself to the short story with an insistence bordering on stubbornness," she told ABC minutes after the award was announced. #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaFantástica (translated)
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"It was a demonized genre. There was a confusion that denied the quality of the narrative, as if it were a failed chapter of a novel. They told me that the stories were good but that it was strange and that those books sold poorly." #PremioCervantes #CristinaFernándezCubas #LiteraturaHispanoamericana (translated)
EL PAÍS
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The short story is an impatient lover, the novel knows how to wait. #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaFantástica (translated)
El Español
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"And it has been this way since my first book," said Fernández Cubas to EL MUNDO in 2023, after receiving the National Prize for Literature. The concerns are also the same. #CristinaFernándezCubas #PremioCervantes #LiteraturaFantástica (translated)
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