The first volume of this trilogy narrating a minimal biography, El anarquista que se llamaba como yo (The Anarchist who bore my name) is dedicated to the name of the author, Pablo Martín; the second novel is dedicated to his date of birth. The third, still without a title, will be dedicated to the city of his birth, Reus. ‘Tuyo es el mañana is an auto-fictional novel based on me. It creates fictional stories that have a great deal of real life in them,’ says Pablo Martín. He also explained that it could be categorized in a number of genres: critics could consider it historical, as it is set in the period of Spain’s transition to democracy, or even pseudo fantasy, as there is a dog and a painting that talk; but for him, it is above all a polyphonic novel, because it includes a number of distinct voices. ‘I like to move across the borders between the genres,’ says Martín Sánchez.

The author has explained that in the case of this novel that takes place over 24 hours, he has been able to gain a closer understanding of the history of people and to study the context of the period. ‘I was interested in showing how six different people lived during the Spanish transition period, reflecting a change in each one of them on that day,’ explains Martín Sánchez.

The Leonardo Grant has allowed Pablo Martín to dedicate a year to concluding this project, on which he had already been working. ‘The grant has allowed me to complete this novel without financial problems. Without it I would have taken two or three more years to finish it,’ he admits.

Author

Pablo Martín Sánchez (near Reus, 1977) has a doctorate in French Language and Literature from Université de Lille-3 and a doctorate in Theory of Literature and Art and Comparative Literature from Universidad de Granada. He has worked in the publishing business as a reader, editor, translator and bookshop owner. He is a member of the Collège de Pataphysique and Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo) and founder of the magazine Verbigràcia. As well as this work, he has published the book of short stories Fricciones (2011) and the novel El anarquista que se llamaba como yo (Acandilado, 2012), chosen by El Cultural as the best first novel of 2012. Some of his work has been translated into other languages, such as French, English, Czech and Dutch.