Antioquia writer Jorge Franco participated in the XVII Congress organized by the College Literature Granada. The central theme of the event was the film in the literature, and who more appropriate to discuss this topic Franco, who has seen two of his novels have been adapted to film
What are you working?
'm moving into a new novel that I started to write this year and I'm writing a parallel series of 13 episodes for HBO.
On what is the new novel and the series?
A tragedy that shook Medellín 60 years ago. It was a kidnapping and subsequent murder. It is a story that I want to mix fantasy with reality. Series I can not give details, all I can say is that it is a history of drug trafficking, violence and love, very Colombian.
The country has many critics of these stories, what do you think?
There are many prejudices, but also something very important, each society must be counted through art, have their sorrows, their tragedies. U.S. has made processes of catharsis through film with issues such as Vietnam, Europe has done with the Second World War. I think they are natural processes in which societies have to be counted and same, I'm not surprised that in Colombia is continuing to produce literature on drug trafficking, because it still happens.
What about adapting novels to film?film and literature is a marriage, sometimes successful and sometimes not work, but go together because they have the same goal of storytelling. It is a risk that has to be, to see what happens with a history from other art.
Were you satisfied with the adaptation of Rosario Tijeras Paradise Travel and film and television?
I was happy with the two film productions, almost everything I liked, of course there were things I would have done differently, but since it is my job, I respect the decision of the directors.
As for television productions I am a friend of shorter would have worked better with less chapters, before I was glad he had not been longer. Adaptation was much freer than others. When they told me they were 60 chapters, I knew that my story was told in eight.
What should I have to be a writer?In this profession there is a requirement and is to be a good reader. One with a good background reading gives the leap to writing, is perhaps the only requirement is needed. We must arm ourselves a lot of discipline, persistence and patience.
How disciplined and stubborn are you?I believe in the daily habit of writing, I do from Monday to Friday after lunch. And very stubborn because I am always in front of the computer, sometimes it happens a lot, sometimes nothing happens.
At what point he realized he wanted to be a writer?
When I realized I could not live without it. The difficult decision was to leave everything for writing, but I realized that what he was doing was echoed liked. He had been a finalist in several literary awards and was very important economic and moral support of my family.
What do you like reading? Leo
all. In the morning newspapers, books at night, sometimes by choice, sometimes out of obligation can be something that can serve me for what I'm writing.
What are you reading?
currently reading a book that has a horrible title called never leave me, its author Kazuo Ishiguro, to now I love it, even adapted it to the movies, and buy the movie, but I wanted to see me until I finish the book.
How much is reality and fiction in his novels?
There are more fiction than reality. Santa luck, that was my last novel, is 90% fiction, Paradise Travel as Rosario Tijeras, are 70% fiction. Always looking much more to fiction because I think that is the great purpose of literature, there is actually telling the journalists. Intimacies
What has been your most bad night?have been many (laughter) I am not a man of good sleep, I'm a night owl, I find it early, then they are plenty, but I think are the nights of waiting, when you're waiting for the next day you solve something. Does
melodrama of his life?All my love stories melodrama have been completed, all together (laughs).
The story to which he has put in more scissors?Last, St. Luck, was the most difficult to write, by being based more on fiction than reality. When you have a real history to lean forward can go hand in hand with it, when you do not have one does not know how to keep raising the wall of that history. Santa luck I wrote it facing the wall, was a novel that I had to edit a lot, cut, add, put it together in many ways, in fact is what has cost me more that I publish.
Is it hard to sit down and write after publishing a successful novel?have to turn the page, does not guarantee success the next, you have to start again. What it generates is more commitment. That's like the phrase that Gabriel García Márquez told me, that was one of the Colombian writers who wanted to pass the torch, it is best to forget the flowers and the club give me.
his generation do writers stand out?There are many, Fernando Vallejo, Tomas Gonzalez, who read little, Mario Mendoza, Santiago Gamboa and Ricardo Silva.
What do you recommend reading?of everything, even self-help books, that's better than not doing anything or holding a gun, killing or clogging in the lives of others. I recommend reading novels, poetry, every book serves.
writer was born in Medellín in 1962. He studied literature at the Universidad Javeriana, and direction and filmmaking at the London International Film School in England. Writing workshop was a member of the Medellin Pilot Public Library, who led Manuel Mejía Vallejo.
In 1996 he was a finalist in the story contest Carlos Castro Saavedra, and won the National Fiction Contest Pedro Gómez Valderrama with Cursed storybook love.
In 1997 he received the first prize at the XIV National Novel Contest Pereira City Bad night with the novel, a work which was a finalist for the Premio Nacional de Novela Colcultura. He received the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture novel with his latest work Rosario Tijeras (1999).
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