David Uclés declares a brief retirement in August: “I will go abroad, I am not living now” | Culture | EUROtoday

The author David Ucles (Úbeda, Jaén, 36 years previous) has introduced a brief retirement of “a year and a half or two.” He stated it first on this system In the code of Rhodes, a Cadena Ser area directed and offered by the British pianist dwelling in Spain James Rhodes. It is an area for relaxed dialog between Rhodes and his visitors. “In the summer I am going to retire; I will spend a year and a half or two without doing anything,” stated the author in this system, which was broadcast from the Luis Galve room in Zaragoza. “I’m going to write, I’m going to work, but I’m going to live. Now I’m not living, now I’m working,” stated the author, who has had two years of media publicity after the success of The peninsula of empty homes y The metropolis of useless lights.

Then, in a phone dialog with EL PAÍS, he wished to emphasise that his retirement can be from August: “Because I have a very tight schedule until the summer. In fact, on Tuesday I am in Oviedo, on Thursday in Gijón… I will also sign books in Sant Jordi. I am still on tour, like the last two years. I would have liked to announce this a few months later, but as I see that it has already appeared in some media, I would like to clarify that the retirement is in five months.”

In the identical dialog he defined the explanations: “I write very well outside my environment. I always do. I am going to take advantage of the fact that they have given me a scholarship in Venice to be there and then I will go to Prague.”

In an interview revealed in October 2025 in EL PAÍS, earlier than his battle with Arturo Pérez Reverte following a couple of days in regards to the Civil War from which he lastly erased himself and likewise earlier than profitable the Nadal prize, he already acknowledged his intentions. “[Uclés] He plans to continue in this maelstrom until 2027, then cut it short, go to Prague to live for two years, start writing. ‘That’s the life I really like, going to a country where I don’t know anyone, not even the language, and starting from scratch,’ he says.”