Andrea Latorre Viñes has been writing since childhood. He wrote short stories as a child, thrillers as a teenager, and now children’s and youth literature. The future will show, but he wants to try other genres as well.
He studied and worked in journalism and is currently a professor at Cardenal Herrera-CEU University in Elche.
Imagine that the first purpose of a book is to escape you, to immerse you in a story, and to distract you from your true story for a while. “A book should combine fun, knowledge and a good vocabulary.”
The 6 friends collection turns into a collection of adventure stories where a group of friends confront mysteries, aiming to introduce the history and cultural diversity of our country, and show that many solutions can be found with cunning and teamwork. .
Something that works very well for children as they learn what a granary is and what it does with the first book (set in Asturias). In the second (Granada), the Alhambra, Sacromonte and Guadix are described with their cave houses. And the third book comes to Alicante and recreates the legend of the Face of the Moor or the island of Tabarca with its pirate raids. The idea is one book per community, so there are a few left.
In Six Friends and the Curse of the Ghost Galleon, most of the action takes place in Tabarca, explaining the pirate raids, the magnificent lighthouse that was once a school for lighthouse keepers, and even mentions the legendary Sara Montiel. write there.
The three books are different from each other. The Top Six friends and the mystery of the abandoned granary are introduced based on more “sweet” and mystery “clues”. Six friends and the secret of the Alhambra evokes Agatha Christie and Indiana Jones, a mix of the two. I wanted to show and convey more suspense in the third Six Friends and the Curse of the Ghost Galleon, and the reading age is more like 12 years.
It won the Babidi-bú 2022 prize for children’s and youth literature at the International Book Fair in Barcelona last October. On the other hand, he also writes personalized stories to give to family, partner or friends, and he does so at https://www.regalatuhistoria.com/.
He concludes our conversation by encouraging everyone to fight for their dreams. “Let’s not set limits on ourselves, we must dream and fight for those dreams.”