ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA

THE WRITER FINALLY BRINGS HIS SERIES TO A CLOSE

With the release of his latest book The Night

Travelers, Cuban-born writer Armando Lucas

Correa ends a loose trilogy of historical

ction about the

Holocaust which began with the bestseller,

The German Girl. In his new sweeping novel, he tells the story of four generations of women who experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the

Cuban Revolution and,

nally, the fall of the

Berlin Wall.

Like his previous works, The Night Travelers is rooted in history – in this case eugenics in Nazi Germany, and how Black and mixed race families were forced to send their children away to keep them safe. “I’m obsessed with facts,” the former journalist explains to WHO. He brings meticulous research to his stories, ensuring that even the smallest details are grounded in reality and actual events – down to whether it was raining on a particular day or what show was playing in a theatre. “Although it’s ction and you use the background and the history as the inspiration, it has to be real.”

Correa, a father of three, grew up in a family of strong women and credits this as the reason he prefers to write from the female perspective. For instance, when he was a young child, his mother divorced his father and moved from Guantanamo to Havana and studied to be a mechanical engineer – a bold path to take in the 1960s. “It’s organic, I can’t explain it,” he says. “I grew up with strong women in my family. I was the only boy in the whole family.”

His next novel, set in New York in the present day and a departure from his previous works, will also be a woman’s tale.