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Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his book…
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culture · Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist (1951–2022) · writer · translator · novelist · professor · journalist · editor · also Javier Marías, Javier Marias, Marías
Born 20 September 1951 · Died 11 September 2022 · Q299161
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Awarded Prix Formentor (2013).
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“and it is extraordinary that we nevertheless have tried throughout the centuries to tell what cannot be told, whether in the form of myth, epic poem, chronicle, annals, minutes, fable, legend or canticle, blind man’s ballads or corridos, gospel, hagiography, history, biography, novel or funeral eulogy, film, confession, memoir, report, it really doesn’t matter.”
The Economist: In Javier Marías’s final novel, an agent confronts his conscience
The Washington Post: Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70
KXAN: Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies at age 70
Died 2022-09-11.
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Career landmark: Participated in "Que No Nos Dividan" manifesto (tournament / event).
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Awarded Prix Formentor (2013).
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Awarded National Novel Prize (2012).
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Awarded International Nonino Prize (2011).
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Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
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A story about a woman drawn into a murder mystery
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Awarded America Award in Literature (2010).
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The trilogy was published as one single volume
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Awarded Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso (2008).
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Career landmark: Member of the Royal Spanish Academy (2008–2022).
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Marías completed the final installment, Tu rostro mañana 3
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Awarded Miguel Delibes Journalism Prize (2003).
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“They are people who are renouncing their own voices.”
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Marías published Tu rostro mañana 1
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Awarded Nelly Sachs Prize (1997).
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Was awarded the title of King of the Kingdom of Redonda by its predecessor Jon Wynne-Tyson for his understanding of the kingdom and for mentioning the story of one of its previous kings, John Gawsworth, in his novel A
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Awarded Prix Femina étranger (1996).
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Awarded Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995).
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Marías published El hombre sentimental (The Man of Feeling), and in 1989 he published Todas las almas (All Souls), which was set at Oxford University
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Won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy
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Born 1951-09-20.
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