Antonio Munoz Molina

Novelist

1956-01-10

Antonio Munoz Molina is a Spanish novelist and essayist known for literary fiction and cultural commentary. His work has received major Spanish literary awards and has been translated widely. He also served in leadership roles connected to the Instituto Cervantes in New York.

Quotes by Antonio Munoz Molina

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
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When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
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A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
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