Why I write for children and young people (In the first person)
To write for children and young people when one is no longer a child and knows the language better, is to refuse to hide one's own childhood and to it without shame. People grow up like matriuskas, those Russian dolls that are superimposed one on top of the other and that grow without ever ceasing to be, inside, the smallest one too, that is, the child we once were. I probably write and read because I believe that literature is a game of magic that allows me to play at believing what is not true, to change what I don't like, to imagine dreams or to frighten away nightmares. To play "if I were you", which seems to me to be the literary game par excellence. And as most of those around me are almost always children and young people, that is to say, children or pupils, then almost all my literary games are childish. I am well aware that playing at children's literature requires learning to use its rules, its language, its interests. And that this is sometimes achieved in the classroom, or in the living room at home, or in their favourite books.... Others, on the other hand, I think it is not as easy as many adults think. But I try to do it in each work.