In a Q&A session, author Sid shares how their affinity for Spanish culture developed, stemming from people, a school exchange year in Lorca in 1990, and initial Spanish language studies.
tpth asks: Sid! I’m a massive fan of both your writing and the country about which you write. I’m wondering how you learned to speak Spanish/how you came to develop such an affinity for Spanish culture – I feel like I read you did an exchange year at some point?
Sid: Thank you. And hello everyone. Tea made, so I’m ready. . I suppose the simple answer is: people. And, in truth, while I do think Spain is special and there are lots of very good reasons to believe it’s different, who knows, it might have worked out the same way if somehow I had ended up in Italy or France or Germany or wherever.
The practical answer, which takes in the language and, from there, I guess the affinity, is that I did Spanish at school . There was a school exchange to Lorca, in Murcia, of all places. Tiny little town. This is 1990, I think. And I turned up with no Spanish at all. But the family were lovely, all the kids on the tri
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