Ask the Author: Armando Lucas Correa
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Armando Lucas Correa
Basically, after the triumph of the revolution in 1959, in order to leave Cuba, you needed permission from the Cuban government, whether you were Cuban or a foreigner residing in Cuba. At first, Alma hoped to be reunited with her husband in Havana. That was the only address he had for her. After the war and with the arrival of communism, the situation became difficult.
Then it became stubbornness. My grandmother, who was of Galician origin, gave Alma a voice.
Then it became stubbornness. My grandmother, who was of Galician origin, gave Alma a voice.
Armando Lucas Correa
I have a playlist for each of my books on Spotify. Each one is named after the book in English.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Armando Lucas Correa
Jackie L, very grateful that you read The Night Travelers. Thank you for your kind words. Yes, Lilith and the Herzogs were on the MS St. Louis, it is a sort of leitmotif in my three historical novels, The German Girl, The Daughter's Tale and The Night Travelers. Of the 937 passengers on the St. Louis, only 28 passengers were able to disembark in Havana and I include, among them, Lilith and the Herozogs. Those 28 passengers were able to disembark for several reasons, either they paid the $500 per passenger required by the Cuban government or they obtained permission to disembark, not from the immigration authorities, but from the Cuban labor department. In my novel The German Girl, I center the story on the St. Louis. In my other novels it is a simple reference. Thank you,
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Armando Lucas Correa
The Night Travelers came out on January 10. I expect The Silence in Her Eyes has a pub day around summer of 2024. Thanks for reading!
Armando Lucas Correa
I don't have to much time to write. I have a full time job, three kids, I travel a lot. Then, when I have time for myself, meaning to write, it is wonderful. Many ideas, many characters, many sentences with me all the time. Only I need is time to write. I don't know what is a writer's block.
Armando Lucas Correa
Having time with yourself. It is a kind of meditation for me. I love working with ideas, characters, paragraphs, sentences. You are building a tower, day by day. At the end you feel empty.
Armando Lucas Correa
Inspiration is a state of mind. For me it is more about discipline and time. I'm always inspired, the only thing I need is time to write. Many ideas, paragraph, sentences in my mind during the day, at night, even sleeping.
Armando Lucas Correa
¿For The Daughter's Tale? A postcard. An old postcard from Oradour-Sur-Glane.
Armando Lucas Correa
I spent four years writing a novel, The Silence in Her Eyes, a psychological thriller. When I finished The German Girl, to give myself a break, I would write Silence. It was my therapy, my way of returning to normalcy. The same happened when I finished The Daughter’s Tale last February: I spent a year finishing up Silence. It takes place in New York, in the present, in my apartment building, in my neighborhood. It begins with a 28-year-old who loses her mother and returns to her apartment, alone, for the first time. She is blind to movement. When she was an eight years-old, the world around here literally came to a standstill. She suffers from akitenopsia, a strange yet reversible neurological illness. She sees the world around as still images, she registers movement as trails of light. That night after her mother passed away, she’s all alone and her world takes a turn from which she will never recover.
Right now I'm writing The Night Traveler (2022). I’m taking some time to finish the last part of my WWII trilogy and hopefully give my readers a respite with The Silence in Her Eyes. Well, a sort of break, because I’m sure that with Silence.. some wont’ be able to sleep for a few days.
Right now I'm writing The Night Traveler (2022). I’m taking some time to finish the last part of my WWII trilogy and hopefully give my readers a respite with The Silence in Her Eyes. Well, a sort of break, because I’m sure that with Silence.. some wont’ be able to sleep for a few days.
Armando Lucas Correa
Read. Read as many book as you can.
Armando Lucas Correa
I grew up with the story of the Saint Louis, from the time I was a young boy, though it was a forbidden topic in Cuba. My grandmother, the daughter of Spanish immigrants, was shocked when Cuba refused entry to the Jewish refuges onboard the Saint Louis. I too am a product of exile, I’m an immigrant as well. I came to the U.S., leaving my family behind, leaving my books. When you’re exiled, you try to set down roots, but you always live —consciously or not— with the fear of loss. I’ve always been interested in historical events, mainly from WW II, which show human vileness and are forgotten in time. They cannot be forgotten. I’m afraid of forgetting. Doing research for The German Girl I found postcards from Oradour-Sur-Glane. I looked for documents, read many books about the massacre in Oradour. I saw the before and after images of the town but when I visited and spent the day among the ruins I was crushed by their dimension. It was city, not a couple of buildings and a church. When you go there, you see the impact of the crime is so much greater. Then, there’s the cemetery where you find the graves of all the people who perished. Entire families.
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