He is known for his direction as an illustrator and also a musician. When did your literary profession awaken in you?
He is known for his direction as an illustrator and also a musician. When did your literary profession awaken in you?
The writer inside him never fully retired. He doesn’t call himself a writer, yet writing has always lived in him. He earns his living through drawing and music, but the habit of putting thoughts into words stayed with him from school, where he treated ideas with seriousness and curiosity. He recalls crafting articles on big themes and feeling the pull to express them, even if publication or fame never defined his path. The act of writing has been a constant companion, a private discipline that shaped how he sees the world and communicates it to others.
what are you looking for inside literature that he couldn’t find in his other two passions?
To him, boundaries between fields blur rather than separate. Literature is not a different arena; it’s another way to capture the visions that live inside him. He sees himself as an inventor more than a traditional artist. Drawings, paintings, stories, songs, and sculptures all emerge from the same impulse. As a teen, he coined an abbreviation that signified this perpetual creation: ECP, a Permanent State of Creation. He even had business cards printed that read “Alejandro Blasi: The Dreamer.” He reflects with a shy cheekiness that remains a defining part of his personality, a blend of audacity and humility that keeps ideas flowing in every medium he touches.
The only book published to date is from fifteen years ago.
Wonder Tree, released in Argentina in 2006, gathers 48 short stories ranging from fantasy to the wonderfully wild. The dream at its core features a colossal tree with strange fruits encountered within a dream setting. Each fruit becomes one story born from that dream, a collection that brings him immense satisfaction. The book earned the 1st Mallorca Fantasy Award and later the Balearic Islands National Festival of Fantasy and Science Fiction prize in 2008, cementing his reputation in the fantasy genre and beyond.
Why did you decide to enter this Zenda Libros literary competition?
The discovery came by chance. He had a short story he believed fit the competition’s theme, titled Stories of the Future, which leaned toward science fiction. He submitted it and then forgot about it. The surprise came when an email announced he had won second prize, selected from more than a thousand submissions. The win stood as a profound moment of validation and encouragement, paired with a cash reward that many creators would value. It remains a source of gratitude and motivation for him.
What can you say about the story sent to the competition?
The piece earned recognition for its judicial flair and its daring by flirting with the absurd. It unfolds in a distant future, imagined around the year 3127, where artists confront the challenge of producing something genuinely original after all of human history has been written. In a twist that reads almost like a paradox, the Nobel Prize in Literature is imagined as awarded to a handbook on applying non-slip coatings, because a few words in a section are strung together in a way that is wholly novel. The story is a playful exploration of originality itself and the limits—and freedoms—of literary creation.
What is the greatest reward literature has given you, the act of writing?
For him, writing and reading share a single key: literature opens a door to magic. It is a portal that connects people, ideas, and emotions across time. The act of writing is a way to translate inner visions into words that others can feel. Reading enlarges that space, letting readers wander through the landscapes he creates with language and imagination. The greatest reward, then, is the bridge literature builds between private insight and shared experience, a place where even a simple sentence can spark wonder in another person. He would add that both writing and reading are daily invitations to imagine, explore, and believe in something beyond the ordinary, a habit that sustains him through every creative journey.