Carlos Quilez He is a well-known face throughout Spain for his journalistic work in the field of criminalistics. Let us briefly examine his biography, works and favorite topics here.
Carlos Quílez, from journalism to crime fiction
Whoever glances at the face of Carlos Quilez or hear your voice you will probably recognize it right away, especially if you are a regular TV viewer or radio listener. Quílez has been a correspondent and collaborator for the main television channels of the Spanish nation for more than twenty years, such as SER, Onda Cero and La Sexta. In all of them he acts as a crime journalist and security expert.
Quílez occupies a position that is difficult to achieve in contemporary society, as a renowned researcher, charismatic public figure, and successful fiction author. This tripod has been patiently built over years of experience, not only in the field of radio, television presence and head of newspaper investigation, but also in moments of journalistic pause to dedicate himself to being Director of Analysis of the Anti-Fraud Office in his native Catalonia.
The baggage accumulated during these years of proximity to crime from the side of the law has served the author to perform better and better as a good exponent of the black novel, a genre of great impact in his country. The possible trauma that prolonged contact with the lower aspects of human experience could generate is then channeled through realist literature.
In the following video, Quílez can be seen lively presenting his work Cerdos y gallinas in 2013.
A work between non-fiction and pure noir
Carlos Quilez He comments that his dedication to the novel after years of journalism was like a belated infidelity within a marriage. His adventures with her lover have turned out well: her work earned him both the Rodolfo Walsh Award in 2009 and the Crims de Tinta Award in the same year.
Quílez's work has gone from something more similar to a journalistic chronicle about crime to novels with their own fictional entity. Robbers (2002), her first effort, was made up of eleven stories about bank robberies in Barcelona, material collected over a decade. Bad Life (2008) is also a compilation of seven sharply portrayed crimes.
However, Asalto a la Virreina (2004) starts from a real event, a bank robbery plan never carried out by an Italian gang, to create a literary narrative. Pigs and chickens (2012), a denunciation of extreme Spanish corruption, in fact has a fictitious protagonist, Patricia Bucana, a figure from another novel by the author. The noir has welcomed Quílez, possessor of an easy, precise verb and good rhythm.
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