LITERARY JOURNEY


I AM RAFAEL MUÑOZ RAMÍREZ

I write stories about obsession and broken worlds

I began writing more than twenty years ago, when I first arrived in Berlin. At the time it was a way to fight loneliness: short stories shared in blogs and forums. What started as a pastime slowly became a habit, and then a passion. As I traveled through Europe, I began writing about architecture — streets, bridges, buildings — and from there I never stopped. What began as survival became creation, and writing has stayed with me ever since.

A FEW WORDS
ABOUT ME AND MY WORK

What is Rafael books? This is my dreams. My name is Rafael Muñoz Ramirez, I was born in Havana, Cuba, and I have lived in Berlin for more than two decades. My first training was in architecture, a discipline that taught me how to look at buildings, streets, and spaces as more than physical structures. Architecture gave me the habit of seeing how environments shape human life — and that habit became the foundation of my writing.

What is Rafael books? This is my dreams. My name is Rafael Muñoz Ramirez, I was born in Havana, Cuba, and I have lived in Berlin for more than two decades. My first training was in architecture, a discipline that taught me how to look at buildings, streets, and spaces as more than physical structures. Architecture gave me the habit of seeing how environments shape human life — and that habit became the foundation of my writing.

RAFAEL BOOKS

 

My novels are literary thrillers: stories that combine suspense with psychological and cultural depth. Stalker is a psychological thriller set in Berlin, inspired by my daily bus rides through the city. Violeta, my next work in progress, continues this exploration of exile and hidden lives.

Havana gave me the sense of a city as a labyrinth of secrets. Berlin, where I have built my life, reveals how every street corner hides a story of memory and silence. Beyond these two poles, I have also traveled extensively across Europe — Lisbon, Paris, Vienna, Prague — and each journey leaves fragments that later return in my stories.

I write primarily in Spanish, but I also translate my own work into English and German. Living between languages allows me to think of literature as a bridge. A novel can cross borders and speak to readers who live far from the places I describe, yet recognize the emotions of exile, obsession, and belonging.

I am also in constant dialogue with the writers who shaped my imagination: Vladimir Nabokov, whose Lolita showed me the hypnotic power of language; José Saramago, whose Blindness taught me that allegory and survival can coexist; and Gabriel García Márquez, whose entire body of work revealed to me the porous frontier between memory and myth.

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