• PREMIERE: The writer and journalist presents 'El condensador de fluzo', a historical dissemination program that premieres on January 7 in La 2

  • PROGRAM: It is a space that shows the great milestones of history, its curiosities and anecdotes and in which there are also nods to humor

  • EL DESENLACE The novelist from Madrid, one of the greatest exponents of the Spanish thriller, has just published 'White King', the book with which he closes the 'Red Queen' trilogy

  • BEST-SELLING Author of success, some of his books have been translated into more than 40 languages ​​and only 'Red Queen' and 'Black Wolf' have sold more than a million copies

Juan Gómez-Jurado

(Madrid, 1977) is a literary phenomenon of the Spanish thriller, although he does not feel that way or the chorus of the famous

patriotic

hit

of the late 90's, "

Fenómeno, eres un phenomenon

"

is sung to him in the street

.

"The phenomena - he says - are Antonia Scott and Jon Gutiérrez, because the people have decided that they are".

They are the protagonists of a trilogy that has sold

more than a million books

and that started with

Red Queen

, continued with

Black Wolf

and now closes with

White King

(Ediciones B).

Writer (he is the author of 10 novels, a saga of juvenile books and even an essay), journalist (he collaborates in radio and press) and, now, television presenter.

On Thursday

, January 7,

he premieres -in

La 2

de Televisión Española- as the

host

of

El condensador de fluzo

, a program that, from humor and entertainment, aims to disseminate universal history.

Juan will not get on the famous DeLorean from

Back to the Future

, but he will, with the help of historians and other experts, propose to the viewer to travel through time.

You are multitasking: radio, press, books ... and TV.

What is 'El condensador de fluzo', in addition to a translation error in the Spanish dubbing of the movie 'Back to the Future'? Well, errors give a lot of play and, in fact, we started by saying: "In this program we embrace the error".

It is a history program made by experts in which we are going to talk about villains, love, first times, historical fake news ... They will be themed and very fun spaces, a kind of historical curiosities for all audiences, but Very rigorous at the same time. And you will be the Doc of 'Back to the Future'? What more I want.

I am Marty McFly and those who take me on a journey through time are very good historians and historians, who will bring us a flint spear from Prehistory;

They will dismantle myths like that of Lucrecia Borgia, who had nothing as a poisoner and was an innocent part of a plot that was brewing around her ... We will stop at fun and interesting aspects, trying to place small culture pills to place things. Well let's travel back in time.

What time would you go to?

I would like to fly to the 50s and meet JRR Tolkien.

Spend an afternoon chatting with him and telling him things that are going to happen with his book;

I think he would be quite amused. If you could erase the past, what or who would you erase?

Part of 2020? I have no right to touch anything from History.

I would love to erase the enormous suffering that people have endured this year;

It would be wonderful, but as we erase, we would have to go to Western Sahara, to the Khmer Rouge and, if we continue to go backwards, we will come to Communist China, to World War II ... I cannot choose what evil to erase. your books.

Top sales, overwhelming success with the public and critical recognition.

You're a phenomenon?

No way.

I am a normal person.

Antonia Scott and Jon Gutiérrez yes they are, because people have decided that they are.

And that is so.

There is no possibility of converting a book with money, with advertising, into a megaphenomenon.

It is the readers who achieve this with their individual decisions.

And what does the Antonia Scott universe have that connects so well with the reader? Adventures, action, suspense ... And one of the great differentiating elements with respect to more canonical thrillers: the sense of humor of its protagonists and how they face the stuff.

This is 50%, because the other 50% are Antonia Scott and Jon Gutiérrez, themselves.

I have said many times that they exist and that I am simply a man who tells his story.

All the writers say that the characters live outside of us and speak to us, and I have been lucky that Antonia and Jon have chosen me.

Gómez-Jurado is the presenter of 'El condensador de fluzo', in La 2.RTVE

You just published 'White King', the ending of 'Red Queen', and it goes like a shot.

Did you expect it? No.

Taking out a book is like taking a cold shower, you never get used to it.

No matter how many times you have done it and, even if you know what is going to happen when a dozen ice-cold glass needles fall on your back, your neck and descend to your genitals, those seconds become hell, and taking out a book is Exactly the same The series officially started in 2018, but the story goes back a long way ... I was once told in an interview that it had succeeded overnight.

And I answered: "Yes, and it only took me 15 years."

I've been building things for a long time and dedicating every moment, the seconds of my day, to books.

Which is very cool and I feel privileged, but I already felt privileged before

Red Queen

, it sold well, not this, of course, and it allowed me to pay the bills.

Living from what you like is the greatest of successes, everything else is added, everything ends, also Antonia and Jon.

Was it the ending you had in mind?

Yes Yes.

The end was the first thing I saw many years ago.

I can't tell you more, any little word I say from there, makes a pupa.

Well, at least you can tell me if the pieces fit ... Yes, and it wasn't easy at all.

Of course, it's been so many years ... I've been with the history of these characters in my head since 2008, building the first story arc, although for them it has only been seven months ... People say that I have put the pieces together very well, All I'm saying is that I've done my best. Will Antonia and John ever come back like prodigals? I don't know.

Well, yes I know, but I'm not going to tell you ... Let's see, they are in the hands of the people, because something of this magnitude cannot be entirely yours and you have to give the readers some control over the story. .. I am listening carefully to what they say, although now I have other stories in my head to tell ...

The Madrid native has just published the outcome of the 'Red Queen' trilogy. © JEOSM

Who would Antonia be in real life?

And Jon? Antonia is the sum of many women that I have met in my life, incredibly intelligent, valuable and who many times have been forced to hide their capacities because the world in which we live is what it is.

And Jon is very easy: me.

He is an affectionate, sweet uncle, who feels very little in front of her.

And, of course, you will tell me, you are not a policeman, neither Basque nor homosexual, neither are you 1.90 nor weigh 100 kilos.

Yes, but I would like to.

Jon has always been me. Books open the world to us, take away our fears and liberate us.

Are they more necessary now than ever?

I think so.

We need to escape from a reality that is very screwed up and very complex, and we all need it.

Look, I put a lot of effort into trying to get the books to as many people as possible, that's why they are put at a lower price and, if someone needs them, I also give them away.

It is a way of giving back to people everything they are doing. You have children and you write children's and young adult literature, what do you think when you hear that children hardly read books?

Which is false.

The natural tendency is to believe that young people work less.

I see my children, their classmates, and they are more sensitive, more empathetic and are much more socially aware, they are less macho and less homophobic than our generation, who grew up with Arévalo's jokes and that we repeated naturally.

And they also read, play video games, watch YouTube, follow a youtuber ... What they don't do is respect institutions that were fundamental to us.

To begin with, the political parties and to continue the traditional media, but they are building a world that, in my opinion, is going to be much more interesting than the one we have had.

And they read a lot ... if their main means of communication is the written word, they don't talk on the phone, they write. For those who don't know you, something difficult and even more so now that you're going to be on television, who is Juan Gómez-Jurado ? A kid from Moratalaz who likes to make lentils and walk his dog and who writes books in his spare time.

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