{"id":2309,"date":"2023-01-04T11:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animaweb.cat\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T09:23:04","slug":"entrevista-a-maria-lluisa-valls-carreras-editorial-caligrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animaweb.blog.pangea.org\/en\/2023\/01\/04\/entrevista-a-maria-lluisa-valls-carreras-editorial-caligrama\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras. Caligrama Editorial."},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><b>Interview with Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras. Caligrama Editorial.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b><span lang=\"ca-ES\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2310 size-full\" title=\"Caligram Editorial. Logo.\" src=\"https:\/\/animaweb.cat\/files\/2023\/01\/Editorial_Caligrama_logotip_72ppp_200x92px.png\" alt=\"Caligram Editorial. Logo.\" width=\"200\" height=\"92\" \/><\/span>Caligrama Editorial.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>Interview with Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>When did you start the literary adventure?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">In my teenage years, when I worked in a factory where you could breathe the smell of toxic products. In my sleepless nights I dedicated myself to writing poems to relieve my anxiety.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>Why are you writing?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I carry it in my blood. I remember the afternoon during my childhood in which the school teacher came to our farmhouse. He insisted to my parents that I had to continue with my studies, since I had a great facility for writing.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>How did the book \u00abEl tesoro Z\u00edngaro\u00bb (\u00abThe Gypsy treasure\u00bb) came about?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Guided by coincidences that kept appearing in my daily life, these being the ones that propelled me, like a leaf carried by the wind, towards that ancestral and authentic people: the gypsies. Thus, I began to connect with their beautiful experiences and with their tragic fate in the Nazi death camps.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2311 size-full\" title=\"Book cover of \u00abEl tesoro Z\u00edngaro\u00bb (&quot;The Gypsy treasure&quot;).\" src=\"https:\/\/animaweb.cat\/files\/2023\/01\/Maria_Lluisa_Valls_i_Carreras_El_tesoro_zingaro_72ppp_360x509px.png\" alt=\"Book cover of \u00abEl tesoro Z\u00edngaro\u00bb (&quot;The Gypsy treasure&quot;).\" width=\"360\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animaweb.blog.pangea.org\/files\/2023\/01\/Maria_Lluisa_Valls_i_Carreras_El_tesoro_zingaro_72ppp_360x509px.png 360w, https:\/\/animaweb.blog.pangea.org\/files\/2023\/01\/Maria_Lluisa_Valls_i_Carreras_El_tesoro_zingaro_72ppp_360x509px-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px\" \/>Book cover of \u00abEl tesoro Z\u00edngaro\u00bb (\u00abThe Gypsy treasure\u00bb).<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>How would you define this work?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">As a work which avoids cliches. Created during immersions in the most hidden depths of my being and, at the same time, of the collective unconscious. Revealing at the end of the book my belief in reincarnation and that I experienced what I had described in my own skin.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>Who are the characters and what are they like?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The protagonist, Sira, appears accompanied by some characters who vibrate next to the beating of the forest. Among others: her husband Drago; Ernestyna, his weaver aunt; his grandfather Janosh; and their children Zorka and Janko. I give a voice to their feelings, their customs, their rooting to live every minute of their lives as if it were their last. Through the narration they will see their bodies dancing freely in paradise and those same bodies bent over in suffering in the embers of hell. As the story progresses, Nazi characters come up. Already in the third part of the book, taking place in the current life, I talk about the reunions with beings from this past who intervene in the healing of Sira&#8217;s soul, of Maria Llu\u00efsa.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>What topics do you deal with in the background of the novel<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I convey that the soul of the human being possesses memory of previous lives. That a Being who is known in other times can appear in this life today, with another dress, offering us its mirror. A mirror that will allow us to see our dark side, our deep wounds, which we need to bring up to light and heal. In the background there is the conviction that we have all been and are teachers, at the same time as students.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>How has this literary experience been?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Hardworking, moving and magical. Perhaps the most remarkable experiences have been those of embroidering the calligrams and the impact of the successive <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">causalities<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> that appeared at the most unexpected moment<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>What did you learn from writing this book?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">It has been something more than learning. After years of therapy to overcome my phobias and fears, while writing the book I became aware that they were connected to the story I was telling. At the same time, I appreciated that I was freeing myself from this burden of the past. I think it was what encouraged me to finish the book and publish it to offer help to other beings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">My learning is that we are all connected.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>To which audience are your works addressed?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">To those restless people who seek the deepest meaning of life. Also to those who are looking for an understanding or answers to what is happening to them in their day to day life.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>How do you think your evolution as a writer has been<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I have been persevering in my gift of writing, without haste and without pause. Parallel to the consciousness that was awakening during these immersions in the depths of myself.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>What has been the biggest challenge when carrying out this work<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">My inner struggle between wanting to write it in a form, let&#8217;s say, conventional and the fact that these &#8220;spellings&#8221; came to me without following any rules or understanding why. It was after I finished writing the manuscript that a teacher who was a student of Kabbalah numerology explained to me that through the reading of each calligram, an unconscious healing of the soul takes place.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>Is there any writing method that works for you?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I am self-taught. The fact that I did not continue studying, as the village teacher insisted my parents to, I believe it safeguarded me from being impregnated with intellectual knowledge and allowed me to be open to my own intuition.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"color: #202124\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>What would you like to achieve in the reading public<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>?\u2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u2013<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">May the spirituality that emanates from each page be able to cause these small miracles in the soul or subconscious of the reader and therefore, in their daily life.\u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>Finish the sentence Calligram is&#8230;A publishing house that works hand in hand with the author to make his dreams come true.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Link to purchase the book in Spanish \u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>El tesoro Z\u00edngaro<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00bb (&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>The gypsy treasure<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8220;), by Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras, In the section &#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>Libros.CC<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8220;:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a class=\"western\" href=\"https:\/\/libros.cc\/El-tesoro-Zingaro.htm?isbn=9788419267016\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><u>https:\/\/libros.cc\/El-tesoro-Zingaro.htm?isbn=9788419267016<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Link to the original interview in Spanish language:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a class=\"western\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caligramaeditorial.com\/noticia?t=Entrevista-a-Maria-Lluisa-Valls-Carreras\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><u>https:\/\/www.caligramaeditorial.com\/noticia?t=Entrevista-a-Maria-Lluisa-Valls-Carreras<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>Post English translation: N\u00faria Comas Viladrich.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras. Caligrama Editorial. Caligrama Editorial. Interview with Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras. \u2013When did you start the literary adventure?\u2013 \u2013In my teenage years, when I worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animaweb.blog.pangea.org\/en\/2023\/01\/04\/entrevista-a-maria-lluisa-valls-carreras-editorial-caligrama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview with Maria Llu\u00efsa Valls Carreras. 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