Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I am against the notion of style in itself

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself