Santiago Posteguillo is a renowned Spanish writer who is also the most read in Colombia. in the historical novel category.
Posteguillo He was awarded the Planeta Prize for his novel Yo, Julia and has been characterized by, in his books, tell the plots in historical periods, such as Rome.
In that sense, the artist passed through the microphones of W Weekend to discuss his most recent books Roma Soy Yo (Ediciones B) and Maldita Roma (Ediciones B), and also, his professional career.
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“I am a novelist, I write a very specific type of novel, which means that I must take her information history with great attention, recreate it and adapt it to the present so that readers have that double sensation of entertainment and knowledge,” said the writer.
In his first work ‘Roma soy yo’, Postequillo never expected the success he would achieve, for this reason, I consider that any writing that came out in the future would have a great expectation among readers.
After the monumental success of ‘Rome is methe writer decided to continue the saga about Julius Caesar and represent his conquest through the novel ‘Damn Rome.
“Julio Cesar is a person who can be expected to have told everything.However, this new edition will tell the known of the unknown, Caesar’s political rise, those 5 processes electoral that led him to win. We know that Caesar will start the Gallic War, but we must tell what happened to change his plan, the truth is that not everything has been told about him.
While it is true, recreating old speeches is a complicated task, since in many cases they are incomplete or altered. For this reason, the writer decided to rely on expert sources that will help him rewrite a judgment as similar as possible.
“It is true that there is no such specific judgment, the speech We do not have what he did, but it is true that there are other discourses of similar trials, and with the help of these models and experts in the fieldthat speech was composed and I modernized it to the present day,” commented the writer.
Santiago Posteguillo, Planet Award 2018, is a philologist, linguist, European doctor from the University of Valencia, is currently a full professor at the Jaume I University of Castellón where he served as director of the headquarters of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages of the Valencian Community for several years. years. Currently he teaches English language and literature classes, with special attention to English narrative of the 19th century, Elizabethan theater and the relationship between English and North American literature with cinema, music and other arts.
He has studied creative literature in the United States and linguistics and translation at various universities in the United Kingdom. Author of more than seventy academic publications ranging from research articles to monographs and specialized dictionariesin 2006 he published his first novel, Africanus, the Consul’s Son, the first part of a trilogy that continues with The Cursed Legions (2008) and The Betrayal of Rome (2009).
In 2008 he was a finalist for the Prize International Historical Novel City of Zaragoza with The Cursed Legions. His novels are recommended by prestigious media such as El País, Historia-National Geographic, Qué Leer, SER-Historia or ABC, to name a few examples. His books are read in Spain, Italy, Poland, Colombia, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Chile or the United States among other countries and They have been translated into languages such as Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, or Catalan, while more translations are prepared. In fact, the translation of all his works into Arabic has just begun.
In 2010, Scipio’s trilogy has continued to receive various recognitions, such as Historical Novel Week Award Cartagena and the Valencian Literature Prize awarded this year to Santiago Posteguillo by the Generalitat Valenciana.
In 2011, The Emperor’s Assassins, the first novel in the series about Emperor Trajan, was a finalist in the Valencian Literary Criticism Awards.
In 2012, the program cultural “Continuará” from La 2 de Televisión Española in Catalonia awarded Santiago Posteguillo the Literature Prize. In September of that year, the volume The Night When Frankenstein read Don Quixote where the author reviews some of the most surprising literary enigmas in historya work that begins the trilogy of books on the history of literature that is so successful among young readers who are passionate about reading.
In 2013, Santiago Posteguillo’s works have continued to garner recognition, such as the 9 de Marzo Prize from the Gregal Association of Historical Studies or the Double Crown Mural granted by the Roman Senate of the City of Cartagena. Likewise, The Night Frankenstein Read Don Quixote was nominated for the Valencian Literary Criticism Award in the category of “essay and other genres.” That same year, the author published Circus Maximus, his second novel in the trilogy about Trajan.
In 2014, Santiago Posteguillo, among other recognitions, received the Barcino Prize for Historical Novel from the City Council of Barcelona and he has been named “Honorary Ambassador” of the Jaume I University. That same year he also published La sangre de los libros, an imaginative work of stories that is part of his trilogy on the history of literature.
The Generalitat Valenciana named Santiago Posteguillo “Writer of the Year 2015.”
In 2016, Posteguillo published The Lost Legion, the third part of his series on Trajan, and in 2017 The Seventh Circle of Hell: cursed writers, forgotten writers, a work with which he concluded his trilogy on the history of literature. During this same year, the writer was invited by the University of Cambridge, as a Visiting Scholar at Sidney Sussex College, to teach classes on historical novels in their doctoral programs.
In 2018, the author received the Planeta award for his novel Yo, Julia, one of the most prestigious awards and impact in literature written in the Spanish language Worldwide. And now, in 2020, the author publishes And Julia Challenged the Gods, the outcome of his biography about Julia Domna, the most powerful empress of the Roman Empire.
The author also hopes premiere The heart of the empire, a series documentary film about women in ancient Rome in Movistar in 2021. While in his academic aspect he directs the courses at the Summer University of the Jaume I University of Castellón.
Listen to the full interview below:
Adhere to historical facts with rigor: Santiago Posteguillo, writer, on his style
