Ana Moglia: The tornado that struck San Justo, Santa Fe, on January 10, 1973, is listed as the fiercest in America, outside of one that occurred in the United States. A Japanese specialist considers it the worst in the world at that time. Japanese scholars came to study the phenomenon because it was so violent. Two thousand people were left homeless and there were about eighty dead.
Q.: Why do certain writers, especially from Cordoba, start from a historical fact for a romantic novel?
A.M: Córdoba is my province by adoption, I live in Rio Cuarto but I am from Entre Ríos by birth. Córdoba is a powerhouse of writers, perhaps because it is a very reading province. About ten years ago, the boom in romantic novels took place here. In my case I need the story to anchor the story in a real event.
Q.: Is your case that of a regional novelist who, due to her success in the provinces, is summoned by a large publishing house?
A.M: I was publishing in El Emporio, a publishing house in Córdoba, and in 2020 the dream came true and I went to Planeta, and in 2021 “The route of dreams” was reissued in Emecé, from the same publishing group, which is the only novel about the life of herbalists in the world. Now his detachment, “After the storm”, has just come out.
Q.: How did you get to a yerbatera trilogy?
A.M: A month after publishing “Al otro lado del ocean”, my first book, on a trip I was given a magazine on rural issues that had a photo of herbalists working on the cover. It was a crush, I said to myself: I have to investigate the lives of these people. It was fascinating. I wrote “The route of dreams” without knowing Misiones. I just went when the book was declared of provincial interest. Thanks to the investigation, I learned that the greatest immigration was from Poles, Ukrainians and Germans, who brought the cooperative models. The Ukrainian who begins the story discovers that the greatest treasure of that land is yerba mate, thus begins “The route of dreams”, which is a biology that closes in “After the storm”. The set is, in some way, a family saga.
Q.: How did your first novel come about?
A.M: One day, chatting with my husband’s grandmother, I asked her at what age her mother had come to Argentina. She came in September 1925, she told me, and after a pause she added, and there she left a love. I got home, I sat down and I put chapter one, port of Naples, September 1925, and I followed until I reached the end of “Across the Ocean”, which was published in November 2012, and from there I did not stop like writer of romance novels.
Q.: Is the protagonist of your novels always a woman?
A.M: No, in “Promise under the moon”, the third one, it is a man, Zahir “the lord of the red oranges”. He would say that it was a request from the readers of “El Jardín de los Naranjos” who wanted to know what had happened to the life of that character. And in “The route of dreams” the protagonist is Pedro.
Q.: After this yerbatera story, what are you writing?
A.M: I have a novel very advanced that only has in common with the others what I call a delicate suspense, which is a work on the way of being, on how the story leads us to think that a person is in a way and suddenly it turns out that it is from a very different one. Maybe that makes me have no problems if I have to put myself in the place of a man or a woman.
Source: Ambito
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