Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
Influences
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I will tell you about writers and artists who have influenced my work, the way I write and, above all, the way I perceive the world and art. ”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events. Explore fiction within reality and create your own stories from the news, photos, and real events.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I will tell you about some writers that have influenced the things I write. If you write, they will surely ask you at some point which writers have influenced what you write. One, when they ask him that, he goes blank and you forget all the authors. That's why I, by dint of listening to that same question, I more or less know which authors they are. The list would be very long, but there are two, three, four or five authors that have really been important in what I write, for example, Patricia Highsmith. She blew my mind when I was a teenager and I read her, becaus...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
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Areas
Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Lola Larra
A course by Lola Larra
Lola Larra was born in Santiago, Chile and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After studying arts at the Andrés Bello Catholic University and then following a rock band across Latin America, she moved to Madrid where she worked for many years as a journalist. She was a writer and correspondent for a series of newspapers and magazines including Rolling Stone, Cinemanía, Colors, Vogue, Página 12, and El País.
14 years later, she returned to Chile, where she published Al sur de la Alameda, an illustrated novel inspired by Chile's 2006 student revolution. It has since been translated into various languages and won several awards. After extensive research, she later published Sprinters, a journalistic novel based on the Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) case. She also currently works at her own publishing house, Ekaré Sur which publishes illustrated stories for children and young adults.
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