The French writer Valérie Perrin59, revealed that “carries a story for a long time” before starting your writing routine. In an exclusive interview with CNN Brazilshe mentioned that she usually matures her stories for years.
“I usually carry a story for a long time. I think ‘The Sunday Forgotten’ was the one that lasted the longest inside me. I carried it, I dreamed about it for more than 10 years. It was forming in my head”, he mentioned about his first novel, which recently arrived in Brazil, through the publisher Intrínseca.
For her other works, she reveals each one is born with a different intention. “For the following novels, it was the same thing. I think about them for months or even years and one day I make some notes, one day I open my computer with these little notes — there aren’t many. I have more or less the beginning and the end of the novel, the, the big themes that I want to address, and from there I start writing and let myself go.”
Perrin also said that there are personal traits in his characters, although none are entirely autobiographical. “I think there’s a little bit of me in each of the characters,” he said. Still, he reinforces that everything goes through transformation: “Nothing is 100% real, in fact… you look for true things, we always take true things and transform them, because it is a novel.”
Valérie Perrin was born in 1967, in Remiremont, and grew up in Burgundy. Photographer and screenwriter, she has won several awards, had her works published in around sixty countries and has become one of the most read French writers in the world. In addition to the debut novel mentioned above, she is the author of “Água fresco para as flors”, “Três” and “”, all published by Intrínseca.
