Author Roberto Lapid (Córdoba, Argentina, 1959) this Friday master class on Alicante School of Creative Writing about the documentation process of a novel. under the title From reality to fiction, the talk will be about how to search for real or historical facts for use in fictional texts. The author will speak with the author and the architect Bego Torregrosa at 19:00 at the writing school (Calle Los Dos Centos nº 5, 1°, Alicante). The event is free with pre-registration.
Lapid, who is also an architect and plastic artist, dive into history to build their land. With several published novels –Dizna. Message from the Past, Weiss Enigma Y Imperfect Passion-, Barcelona-based Argentine writer, deep his research to shape his narratives Because according to him, knowing our past helps us understand what we are and where we are going.
This historical novelist begins to create fiction from true stories. He did this in his first novel or last published work based on his family’s history. Imperfect Passionhere he describes the tumultuous relationship between the young Austrian. Frederick broken mandl and known as the young Hedwig Kiesler Hedy LamarrHollywood actor and inventor of frequency switching, a technique that would later make Wi-Fi communication possible.
Roberto Lapid teaches in addition to writing. talks Human Rights in Universities, Schools and Foundations and on issues related to some subjects of literature and history. A few years ago he visited Alicante to look for information in the archives of this newspaper. a historical novel where he worked. in it, part of the plot stops at a real character Croatian general who ended up in Carcaixent (Valencia) under the protection of the Franco dictatorship and was assassinated in that city in 1969 Max LubricantA Nazi war criminal who ran a Yugoslav concentration camp during World War II.