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Becky Blake

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BECKY BLAKE is an author who divides her time between Toronto and Texas. She has also lived in Barcelona, where she was inspired to write her debut novel Proof I Was Here. Becky is a two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction in 2017 and short fiction in 2013). She writes a monthly Substack newsletter called Truly Important for nonfiction writers. She is currently working on a second novel and a memoir-in-essays.

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Becky Blake I lived in Barcelona off and on for three years in a pretty rough neighbourhood where there was a lot of crime. Almost every day I saw tourists sittin…moreI lived in Barcelona off and on for three years in a pretty rough neighbourhood where there was a lot of crime. Almost every day I saw tourists sitting on a bench near my apartment crying because they’d been robbed. Losing something suddenly – a wallet; a loved one – often triggers people to confront existential questions. Why are some people lucky and others aren’t? If things can disappear at any moment, what’s the point of trying to hold onto things? If we all eventually disappear without a trace, what’s the point of trying to leave a mark? I wanted to write about how grief forces us to face those questions, and the ways we try to comfort ourselves and what role art can play in making us feel better. I also wanted to write a character who has experience on both sides of the loss equation – a young woman who has lost many things, but who is also a thief.(less)
Becky Blake Develop a writing practice. Try to commit to your writing in some consistent way you can honor. Maybe that's a couple of hours each morning, or maybe …moreDevelop a writing practice. Try to commit to your writing in some consistent way you can honor. Maybe that's a couple of hours each morning, or maybe just one evening a week. Spending a bunch of time getting words out of your head and onto paper is really the only way to get better at writing. Also, reading is important. Reading widely helps writers decide what they like and what they don't like. It also gives us an instinct for story, characters and words... (less)
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Proof I Was Here

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Novels Set in Barcelona

Barcelona is my favourite city, which is why I chose it as the setting for my first novel Proof I Was Here. If you also love the city, or simply wish to visit via a great book, here are four of my favourite novels that take place in Barcelona (and are available in English translation):
Nada by Carmen Laforet
The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
No Word From Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza

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“She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
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