Montevideo .- docked hundreds of banks, was politoxicómano and spent nearly 10 years in prison, but the Spanish writer Dani Red survived the life of the underworld with the “two neurons” sufficient to narrate his life in a series of books that have made him a regular at literary fairs black genre.
In this context, Red is these days in Montevideo, where he was interviewed by Efe occasion of his participation in the second edition of the Black Week of the Uruguayan capital, which houses the Cultural Center of Spain until next August 14.
“I survived all that and above are my two neurons to explain,” he said Red Daniel Bonilla (Barcelona, 1962), better known as Dani Rojo, one of the most bank robbers pursued by the Spanish police in the 70s and 80s.
Their adventures and misadventures crime earned him the nickname of ‘The Millionaire’ and a life of money, drugs and women that came to light in 2010 with the publication of the book “Confessions of a Gangster Barcelona ‘written by Lluc Oliveras from the narrative of his own character.
“I’m a survivor of a lost generation because they all died. In that book he published 150 characters and 140 are dead “, he said.
Years later and after two more collaborations with Oliveras (‘The big hit gangster Barcelona’ and ‘My life at stake), decided write fictional stories from their experience and gave life to Hugo ‘The Shark’, the offender starring the three black novels that Red has written to date.
“I am an atypical writer because I do not I have to do a great research, I only have to remember. I remember friends, things that have happened around me and intone have many criminal characters and stories, “he said.
His knowledge of the criminal world is so vast that many authors of crime fiction always tell “Now you’ve got a writer, we want to be robbers,” as he shared
In the novels featuring ‘The Shark’ I wanted to put the offender as protagonist and the sympathetic reader with it by adding a. high load of humor.
“I like that in my novels, although it has intrigue and is pure thriller, has much joke and you could laugh at all the chapters, because if the offender always triumphs what for what’s going to want to steal more? Then I’m cursing, “said Barcelona.
The author was inspired by his experience to give life to ‘The Shark’, but said that this is a character totally fabricated and often, when you start write, has to “cut” because “truth is stranger than fiction.”
Red said he was not sorry for his past because he is now happy and says that even prison earned him positive things, including the fans reading, of which he was pinned from ‘A Confederacy of Dunces “by John Kennedy Toole.
” The prison has given me wisdom that many people have. And reading. I read comics, but not books, and in prison started reading novels and saw that evaded me and I laughed over some “as the work of Toole said
.” In addition, when I was arrested in 1991 helped me, otherwise surely would not be alive, “he said.
Your life behind bars ended in 1999 and out would” make it difficult “.
“Because easy as it had done, it was get me drugs and live in an unreal world. I when I left he wanted to be a regular guy, trying to find a job and a girl, “said
Then came one of his childhood friends to lend a hand. The musician Loquillo, who shares size ways of dressing and rockers air, and began working with him as escort and “personal assistant”.
After Loquillo I came Enrique Bunbury, Andres Calamaro and Lionel Messi.
“I drive well, do not drink alcohol and I can go at 7 in the morning when they leave their concerts or festivals and you can carry wherever they want, “said Red.
This job gave him a vital stability and economic until 2008 was father and knew that “no longer could be giving many laps for Spain”, to which the diagnosis of liver cancer joined soon after.
Then came the literature and the occasional foray into the world of theater and cinema.
‘The Millionaire’ and only said that he is nicknamed, now baptized with their email accounts and social networks, as “good taste in dress, eating and women” and desire to do things with the attitude of a 19 years.
“It takes very little to encourage me to something. I want to work and do whatever comes. Of course, if I have gained something from the rest of the people that I already know what I would not, all I do not want I’ve done, “he said.
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