MADRID- with children spurred Spanish award-winning film director and writer Julia Montejo to turn his hand to literature, and she has published her second novel with a third on the way.
"I was much more productive since I had two children, perhaps because I am afraid of all the speeches that, oh, now you're a mother you stopped dead,"Montejo told Reuters at his home in Madrid."."
"I have not stopped working all the." I have written for television, I have two novels, there is the agreement of Fox and my university education, "she added, referring to an agreement to film his script" heart for auction "with the Twentieth Century Fox, News Corp unit."
Heart is a young woman eager to study and to escape from a poor background in which his friends aspirations are limited to be friends of footballers.
It takes the initiative desperate to put his virginity up for auction on a game televised fights for ratings.
"It's a film about sex, no sex." She would go to any lengths to television, this seems very topical, "said Montejo.
LEGACY INVISIBLE
Montejo has lived in the United States for eight years, during which she wrote and directed the production U.S. - Spanish "No. Turning Back" in 2001, which won the best independent Latino film at the ALMA awards, a Latino of Oscars version.
She returned to Spain in 2004 and has her first child in 2006, the same year, she released "Eva desnuda" (naked Eve), finalist for the price of the book Plaza y Janes.
"Para Violetas Olivia"(violettes_pour_Olivia), his second novel, is on sale month last in Spain and is due to be published in Italian by Mondadori. "."
Montejo tells the story of a young professional who fight for wilted irons of what Montejo that calls the "legacy invisible" female models made over the centuries, defined in the context of a family of hide bound to the South of the Spain.
"We have just started to take a break", she said. "They still sell us the tale of Prince charming and all these novels of Bridget Jones-type in which women are professionals but disappointed because they have not met the perfect man.".
"We women have to understand where this comes, because otherwise we will be happy or establish meaningful relationships."
"Olivia" graphics how generations of women married by arrangement or convenience, requiring to hide behind religion or become rebels.
"The character of Olivia learns much, lives a lot, fully, the rebels, but is incapable of teaching his daughter to prevent him from making the same mistakes," said Montejo.
The novel marks a break with his first book, which was more a detective novel. Montejo has refused to reveal the theme of his third book, but promised that it would be "very different" once again.
"I like writing books which are varied, shall we say." I get a little bored with authors who write the same old stuff. I am thinking up many ideas and I still love to explore, not only of the plots and the subject, but structures and styles.
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