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Javier Marías

October 21, 2023

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Marías and the second or maternal family name is Franco.

Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022)[1] was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist.[2] Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco, 1992) and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, 1994).[3] 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 books have been translated into forty-six languages and were sold close to nine million times internationally.[4] He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).[5]

Javier Marías
Marías in 2008
BornJavier Marías Franco
(1951-09-20)20 September 1951
Madrid, Spain
Died11 September 2022(2022-09-11) (aged 70)
Madrid, Spain
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • translator
  • columnist
Notable worksAll Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Your Face Tomorrow
Relatives
Seat R of the Real Academia Española
In office
27 April 2008[a] – 11 September 2022
Preceded byFernando Lázaro Carreter
Succeeded byvacant
Website
javiermarias.es

Marías studied philosophy and literature at the Complutense University of Madrid before going on to teach at several universities, including his alma mater, universities in Oxford and Venice, and Wellesley College in Massachusetts.[6] In 1997, he 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 All Souls (Todas las almas, 1989).

Life Edit

Javier Marías Franco was born in Madrid on 20 September 1951,[7][8][9] as the fourth of five sons.[10] His father was the philosopher Julián Marías,[10] who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco (the father of the protagonist of Your Face Tomorrow was given a similar biography[11]). His mother was the writer Dolores Franco Manera [es].[12] Marías was the fourth of five sons.[13] Two of his siblings were art historian Fernando [es] and film critic and economist Miguel [es].[12] He was the nephew and cousin of, respectively, filmmakers Jesús "Jess" Franco and Ricardo Franco.[12] Marías spent parts of his childhood in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid. After having returned to Madrid, Marías studied philosophy and literary sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid from 1968 to 1973.[14] From the 1970s onwards, he was involved in translating English literary works into the Spanish language.[15] His first literary employment consisted of translating Dracula scripts for his maternal uncle, Jesús Franco.[16][17]

Writing Edit

Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14.[18] He ran away from home to write his first novel and went to live with his uncle in Paris.[13] He began writing Los dominios del lobo (The Dominions of the Wolf), at the age of 17.[19] It was about an American family[19] and according to him, it was written in the morning hours.[20] The novel is dedicated to the Spanish author Juan Benet, who managed to compel the publisher Edhasa [es] to print the book, and to Vicente Molina Foix, who provided him with the title.[20] In later years he considered himself an "evening-time" writer.[20] The novel Travesía del horizonte (Voyage Along the Horizon) was an adventure story about an expedition to Antarctica.[21][22]

His translations included work by Updike, Hardy, Conrad, Nabokov, Faulkner, James, Stevenson, and Browne.[23][24] In 1979, he won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy.[14] Between 1983 and 1985, Marías lectured in Spanish literature and translation at the University of Oxford.[25]

In 1986, Marías published El hombre sentimental (The Man of Feeling), and in 1989 he published Todas las almas (All Souls),[26] which was set at Oxford University. The Spanish film director Gracia Querejeta released El Último viaje de Robert Rylands (Robert Rylands' Last Journey), adapted from Todas las almas, in 1996.[27]

His 1992 novel Corazón tan blanco[28] is centered on Juan, a translator for the United Nations (UN), and its English version A Heart So White was translated by Margaret Jull Costa.[29] It was received well by the literary critics and won the Spanish Critics Award.[20] Marías and Costa were joint winners of the 1997 International Dublin Literary Award.[30] In his 1994 novel, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, the protagonist is a ghostwriter.[31]

The protagonists of the novels written since 1986 are all interpreters or translators of one kind or another, based on his own experience as a translator and teacher of translation at Oxford University. Of these protagonists, Marías wrote, "They are people who are renouncing their own voices."[13]

In 2002 Marías published Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza (Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear), the first part of a trilogy which was his most ambitious literary project. The first volume is dominated by a translator, an elderly don based on an actual professor emeritus of Spanish studies at Oxford University, Sir Peter Russell. The second volume, Tu rostro mañana 2. Baile y sueño (Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream), was published in 2004. In 2007, Marías completed the final installment, Tu rostro mañana 3. Veneno y sombra y adiós (Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell).[32] In 2009, the trilogy was published as one single volume.

It was followed by the novel Los enamoramientos (The Infatuations) in 2011, a story about a woman drawn into a murder mystery. The novel won the state-run National novel prize, but Marías rejected the award saying he did not want to be indebted to a government of any kind.[33]

He also was a regular contributor to El País, whose editor-in-chief Pepa Bueno lamented his death and called it a sad day for Spanish literature.[34] In 2005–2006, an English version of his column, "La Zona Fantasma", appeared in the monthly magazine The Believer.[35]

Redonda Edit

See also: Kingdom of Redonda

After having been awarded the title King of Redonda, he was also known as Xavier I.[36] and, from 2000 onwards, Marías operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda.[37] Its first book of the publishing house was La mujer de Huguenin by the first King of Redondo and author M. P. Shiel.[36] Marías's novel, Todas las almas (All Souls), included a portrayal of the poet John Gawsworth, who was also the third King of Redonda. Although the fate of this monarchy after the death of Gawsworth is contested, the portrayal by Marías so affected the "reigning" king, Jon Wynne-Tyson, that he abdicated and left the throne to Marías in 1997. This course of events was chronicled in his "false novel," Negra espalda del tiempo (Dark Back of Time). The book was inspired by the reception of Todas las almas by many people who, falsely according to Marías, believed they were the source of the characters in Todas las almas.[38] After "taking the throne" of Redonda, Marías began a publishing imprint named Reino de Redonda ("Kingdom of Redonda").[39]

Marías conferred many titles during his reign upon people he liked, including upon Pedro Almodóvar (Duke of Trémula),[40] António Lobo Antunes (Duke of Cocodrilos), John Ashbery (Duke of Convexo), Pierre Bourdieu (Duke of Desarraigo), William Boyd (Duke of Brazzaville),[40] Michel Braudeau (Duke of Miranda),[citation needed] A. S. Byatt (Duchess of Morpho Eugenia),[40] Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Duke of Tigres),[citation needed] Pietro Citati (Duke of Remonstranza),[citation needed] Francis Ford Coppola (Duke of Megalópolis),[41] Agustín Díaz Yanes (Duke of Michelín),[citation needed] Roger Dobson (Duke of Bridaespuela),[citation needed] Frank Gehry (Duke of Nervión),[citation needed] Francis Haskell (Duke of Sommariva),[citation needed] Eduardo Mendoza (Duke of Isla Larga),[citation needed] Ian Michael (Duke of Bernal),[citation needed] Orhan Pamuk (Duke of Colores),[citation needed] Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Duke of Corso),[citation needed] Francisco Rico (Duke of Parezzo),[citation needed] Sir Peter Russell (Duke of Plazatoro),[citation needed] Fernando Savater (Duke of Caronte),[citation needed] W. G. Sebald (Duke of Vértigo),[41] Jonathan Coe (Duke of Prunes),[citation needed] Luis Antonio de Villena (Duke of Malmundo),[citation needed] and Juan Villoro (Duke of Nochevieja).[citation needed]

Premio Reino de Redonda Edit

Marías created a literary prize, the Premio Reino de Redonda [es], to be judged by the dukes and duchesses. The jury was of extraordinary prominence,[36] comprising the dukes mentioned below and other figures such as Francis Ford Coppola.[42] In addition to prize money, the winners, listed below, received a duchy:

Death Edit

Marías died of pneumonia caused by Covid-19 in Madrid on 11 September 2022, at the age of 70.[51][7][8][52] The Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza remembered him as the best writer in Spain at the time of his death,[4] and one who wrote female characters the best.[53]

Awards and honours Edit

Works Edit

All English translations by Margaret Jull Costa unless otherwise indicated.

Novels Edit

Novellas and short stories Edit

  • Mientras ellas duermen (1990). While the Women Are Sleeping (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2010)[81]
  • Cuando fui mortal (1996). When I Was Mortal (The Harvill Press, 1999; New Directions, 2000)[82]
  • Mala índole (1996). Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, translated by Esther Allen (New Directions, 2010)[83]

Anthologies Edit

  • Between Eternities & Other Writings (U.S.: Penguin/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2017). Later compiled in Spanish as Entre Eternidades. Y otros escritos (2018)[84]

Nonfiction Edit

  • Vidas escritas (1992). Written Lives (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Canongate, 2006). Literary biography.[85]
  • Venice, an interior (2016) (London: Penguin Books, 2016)[86]

Notes Edit

  1. ^ Elected on 29 June 2006

References Edit

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Further reading Edit

  • Berg, Karen, Javier Marías's Postmodern Praxis: Humor and Interplay Between Reality and Fiction in His Novels and Essays (2008) (Doctoral dissertation (2006), later published as book ISBN 978-3-63945-397-3 (2012 ed.))
  • Cunado, Isabel, El Espectro de la Herencia: La Narrativa de Javier Marías (2004). ISBN 978-9-04201-612-5
  • Herzberger, David K. A Companion to Javier Marías. Rochester, NY: Tamesis Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-85566-230-8
  • Miles, Valerie (2014). A Thousand Forests in One Acorn. Rochester, NY: Open Letter. pp. 585–616. ISBN 978-1-934824-91-7.

External links Edit

 
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  • (translated by Margaret Jull Costa), Granta 107, Summer 2009.
  • "Javier Marías", BBC HardTalk Extra, 3 March 2006. Video
  • Wyatt Mason, "A Man Who Wasn't There", The New Yorker, 14 November 2005.
  • "Feeling London's bombs in Madrid", The New York Times, 11 July 2005.
  • Sarah Emily Miano, "Betrayal of a blood brother", The Observer, 8 May 2005.
  • "How to remember, how to forget", The New York Times, 11 September 2004.
  • "Fewer Scruples", Barcelona Review, No. 15, November 1999.
  • "The Limits of Human Memory: On Proust and Javier Marías" 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Quarterly Conversation, Issue 17.
  • John M. Keller, “Interview with Javier Marías”. Dr. Cicero, Spring 2021.

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In this Spanish name the first or paternal surname is Marias and the second or maternal family name is Franco Javier Marias Franco 20 September 1951 11 September 2022 1 was a Spanish author translator and columnist 2 Marias published fifteen novels including A Heart So White Corazon tan blanco 1992 and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Manana en la batalla piensa en mi 1994 3 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 books have been translated into forty six languages and were sold close to nine million times internationally 4 He received several awards for his work such as the Romulo Gallegos Prize 1995 the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997 the International Nonino Prize 2011 and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2011 5 Javier MariasMarias in 2008BornJavier Marias Franco 1951 09 20 20 September 1951Madrid SpainDied11 September 2022 2022 09 11 aged 70 Madrid SpainOccupationNovelist translator columnistNotable worksAll Souls A Heart So White Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me Your Face TomorrowRelativesJulian Marias father Jess Franco uncle Ricardo Franco cousin Seat R of the Real Academia EspanolaIn office 27 April 2008 a 11 September 2022Preceded byFernando Lazaro CarreterSucceeded byvacantWebsitejaviermarias wbr esMarias studied philosophy and literature at the Complutense University of Madrid before going on to teach at several universities including his alma mater universities in Oxford and Venice and Wellesley College in Massachusetts 6 In 1997 he 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 All Souls Todas las almas 1989 Contents 1 Life 1 1 Writing 1 2 Redonda 1 3 Premio Reino de Redonda 2 Death 3 Awards and honours 4 Works 4 1 Novels 4 2 Novellas and short stories 4 3 Anthologies 4 4 Nonfiction 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksLife EditJavier Marias Franco was born in Madrid on 20 September 1951 7 8 9 as the fourth of five sons 10 His father was the philosopher Julian Marias 10 who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco the father of the protagonist of Your Face Tomorrow was given a similar biography 11 His mother was the writer Dolores Franco Manera es 12 Marias was the fourth of five sons 13 Two of his siblings were art historian Fernando es and film critic and economist Miguel es 12 He was the nephew and cousin of respectively filmmakers Jesus Jess Franco and Ricardo Franco 12 Marias spent parts of his childhood in the United States where his father taught at various institutions including Yale University and Wellesley College His mother died when Javier was 26 years old He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid After having returned to Madrid Marias studied philosophy and literary sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid from 1968 to 1973 14 From the 1970s onwards he was involved in translating English literary works into the Spanish language 15 His first literary employment consisted of translating Dracula scripts for his maternal uncle Jesus Franco 16 17 Writing Edit Marias began writing in earnest at an early age The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping 2010 was written when he was just 14 18 He ran away from home to write his first novel and went to live with his uncle in Paris 13 He began writing Los dominios del lobo The Dominions of the Wolf at the age of 17 19 It was about an American family 19 and according to him it was written in the morning hours 20 The novel is dedicated to the Spanish author Juan Benet who managed to compel the publisher Edhasa es to print the book and to Vicente Molina Foix who provided him with the title 20 In later years he considered himself an evening time writer 20 The novel Travesia del horizonte Voyage Along the Horizon was an adventure story about an expedition to Antarctica 21 22 His translations included work by Updike Hardy Conrad Nabokov Faulkner James Stevenson and Browne 23 24 In 1979 he won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Sterne s Tristram Shandy 14 Between 1983 and 1985 Marias lectured in Spanish literature and translation at the University of Oxford 25 In 1986 Marias published El hombre sentimental The Man of Feeling and in 1989 he published Todas las almas All Souls 26 which was set at Oxford University The Spanish film director Gracia Querejeta released El Ultimo viaje de Robert Rylands Robert Rylands Last Journey adapted from Todas las almas in 1996 27 His 1992 novel Corazon tan blanco 28 is centered on Juan a translator for the United Nations UN and its English version A Heart So White was translated by Margaret Jull Costa 29 It was received well by the literary critics and won the Spanish Critics Award 20 Marias and Costa were joint winners of the 1997 International Dublin Literary Award 30 In his 1994 novel Manana en la batalla piensa en mi the protagonist is a ghostwriter 31 The protagonists of the novels written since 1986 are all interpreters or translators of one kind or another based on his own experience as a translator and teacher of translation at Oxford University Of these protagonists Marias wrote They are people who are renouncing their own voices 13 In 2002 Marias published Tu rostro manana 1 Fiebre y lanza Your Face Tomorrow 1 Fever and Spear the first part of a trilogy which was his most ambitious literary project The first volume is dominated by a translator an elderly don based on an actual professor emeritus of Spanish studies at Oxford University Sir Peter Russell The second volume Tu rostro manana 2 Baile y sueno Your Face Tomorrow 2 Dance and Dream was published in 2004 In 2007 Marias completed the final installment Tu rostro manana 3 Veneno y sombra y adios Your Face Tomorrow 3 Poison Shadow and Farewell 32 In 2009 the trilogy was published as one single volume It was followed by the novel Los enamoramientos The Infatuations in 2011 a story about a woman drawn into a murder mystery The novel won the state run National novel prize but Marias rejected the award saying he did not want to be indebted to a government of any kind 33 He also was a regular contributor to El Pais whose editor in chief Pepa Bueno lamented his death and called it a sad day for Spanish literature 34 In 2005 2006 an English version of his column La Zona Fantasma appeared in the monthly magazine The Believer 35 Redonda Edit See also Kingdom of Redonda After having been awarded the title King of Redonda he was also known as Xavier I 36 and from 2000 onwards Marias operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda 37 Its first book of the publishing house was La mujer de Huguenin by the first King of Redondo and author M P Shiel 36 Marias s novel Todas las almas All Souls included a portrayal of the poet John Gawsworth who was also the third King of Redonda Although the fate of this monarchy after the death of Gawsworth is contested the portrayal by Marias so affected the reigning king Jon Wynne Tyson that he abdicated and left the throne to Marias in 1997 This course of events was chronicled in his false novel Negra espalda del tiempo Dark Back of Time The book was inspired by the reception of Todas las almas by many people who falsely according to Marias believed they were the source of the characters in Todas las almas 38 After taking the throne of Redonda Marias began a publishing imprint named Reino de Redonda Kingdom of Redonda 39 Marias conferred many titles during his reign upon people he liked including upon Pedro Almodovar Duke of Tremula 40 Antonio Lobo Antunes Duke of Cocodrilos John Ashbery Duke of Convexo Pierre Bourdieu Duke of Desarraigo William Boyd Duke of Brazzaville 40 Michel Braudeau Duke of Miranda citation needed A S Byatt Duchess of Morpho Eugenia 40 Guillermo Cabrera Infante Duke of Tigres citation needed Pietro Citati Duke of Remonstranza citation needed Francis Ford Coppola Duke of Megalopolis 41 Agustin Diaz Yanes Duke of Michelin citation needed Roger Dobson Duke of Bridaespuela citation needed Frank Gehry Duke of Nervion citation needed Francis Haskell Duke of Sommariva citation needed Eduardo Mendoza Duke of Isla Larga citation needed Ian Michael Duke of Bernal citation needed Orhan Pamuk Duke of Colores citation needed Arturo Perez Reverte Duke of Corso citation needed Francisco Rico Duke of Parezzo citation needed Sir Peter Russell Duke of Plazatoro citation needed Fernando Savater Duke of Caronte citation needed W G Sebald Duke of Vertigo 41 Jonathan Coe Duke of Prunes citation needed Luis Antonio de Villena Duke of Malmundo citation needed and Juan Villoro Duke of Nochevieja citation needed Premio Reino de Redonda Edit Marias created a literary prize the Premio Reino de Redonda es to be judged by the dukes and duchesses The jury was of extraordinary prominence 36 comprising the dukes mentioned below and other figures such as Francis Ford Coppola 42 In addition to prize money the winners listed below received a duchy 2001 John Maxwell Coetzee Duke of Deshonra 43 2002 John H Elliott 42 Duke of Simancas 2003 Claudio Magris 42 Duke of Segunda Mano 2004 Eric Rohmer 42 Duke of Olalla 2005 Alice Munro 44 Duchess of Ontario 2006 Ray Bradbury Duke of Diente de Leon 45 2007 George Steiner Duke of Girona 46 2008 Umberto Eco Duke of la Isla del Dia de Antes 47 2009 Marc Fumaroli Duke of Houyhnhnms 48 49 2010 Milan Kundera 42 2011 Ian McEwan Duke of the black dogs 50 Death EditMarias died of pneumonia caused by Covid 19 in Madrid on 11 September 2022 at the age of 70 51 7 8 52 The Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza remembered him as the best writer in Spain at the time of his death 4 and one who wrote female characters the best 53 Awards and honours Edit1979 Fray Luis de Leon Translation Award es Germanic languages for Tristram Shandy 54 1986 Premio Herralde for El hombre sentimental 26 1989 Barcelona City Award ca Spanish literature narrative for Todas las almas 55 1992 Premio de la Critica Espanola 10 1995 Romulo Gallegos Prize 10 for Manana en la batalla piensa en mi Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me 1995 Fastenrath Award Real Academia Espanola for Manana en la batalla piensa en mi 56 1996 Prix Femina etranger for Demain dans la bataille pense a moi Manana en la batalla piensa en mi 57 1997 Nelly Sachs Prize 35 1997 International Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So White 58 2000 Grinzane Cavour Prize 35 2008 Marias was elected to Seat R of the Real Academia Espanola on 29 June 2006 He took up his seat on 27 April 2008 59 At his investiture he agreed with Robert Louis Stevenson that the work of novelists is pretty childish but also argued that it is impossible to narrate real events and that you can only fully tell stories about what has never happened the invented and imagined 60 2011 International Nonino Prize in Italy 61 2011 Austrian State Prize for European Literature citation needed 2013 Prix Formentor 62 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award fiction shortlist for The Infatuations 63 2017 LIBAR 2017 Award for the most outstanding Hispano American author 64 2021 Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer 65 Works EditAll English translations by Margaret Jull Costa unless otherwise indicated Novels Edit Los dominios del lobo 1971 66 Travesia del horizonte 1973 Voyage Along the Horizon translated by Kristina Cordero McSweeney s 2006 67 El monarca del tiempo 1978 68 El siglo 1983 69 El hombre sentimental 1986 The Man of Feeling U S New Directions UK The Harvill Press 2003 70 Todas las almas 1989 All Souls The Harvill Press 1992 New Directions 2000 71 Corazon tan blanco 1992 A Heart So White The Harvill Press 1995 New Directions 2002 72 Manana en la batalla piensa en mi 1994 Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me The Harvill Press 1996 New Directions 2001 73 Negra espalda del tiempo 1998 Dark Back of Time translated by Esther Allen New Directions 2001 Chatto amp Windus 2003 74 Tu rostro manana 1 Fiebre y lanza 2002 Your Face Tomorrow 1 Fever and Spear U S New Directions UK Chatto amp Windus 2005 75 Tu rostro manana 2 Baile y sueno 2004 Your Face Tomorrow 2 Dance and Dream U S New Directions UK Chatto amp Windus 2006 76 Tu rostro manana 3 Veneno y sombra y adios 2007 Your Face Tomorrow 3 Poison Shadow and Farewell U S New Directions UK Chatto amp Windus 2009 11 Los enamoramientos 2011 The Infatuations U S Knopf UK Hamish Hamilton 2013 77 Asi empieza lo malo 2014 Thus Bad Begins U S Knopf UK Hamish Hamilton 2016 78 Berta Isla 2017 Berta Isla US Knopf UK Hamish Hamilton 2018 79 Tomas Nevinson 2021 80 Novellas and short stories Edit Mientras ellas duermen 1990 While the Women Are Sleeping U S New Directions UK Chatto amp Windus 2010 81 Cuando fui mortal 1996 When I Was Mortal The Harvill Press 1999 New Directions 2000 82 Mala indole 1996 Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico translated by Esther Allen New Directions 2010 83 Anthologies Edit Between Eternities amp Other Writings U S Penguin UK Hamish Hamilton 2017 Later compiled in Spanish as Entre Eternidades Y otros escritos 2018 84 Nonfiction Edit Vidas escritas 1992 Written Lives U S New Directions UK Canongate 2006 Literary biography 85 Venice an interior 2016 London Penguin Books 2016 86 Notes Edit Elected on 29 June 2006References Edit Muere Javier Marias el gran novelista espanol del ultimo medio siglo Diario ABC in Spanish 11 September 2022 Retrieved 29 June 2023 Wroe Nicholas 22 February 2013 Javier Marias a life in writing The Guardian Retrieved 23 February 2013 Javier Marias Penguin Random House PenguinRandomhouse com Retrieved 5 December 2020 a b Spanish novelist Javier Marias dies aged 70 SWI swissinfo ch Archived from the original on 11 September 2022 Retrieved 11 September 2022 Kingsford Smith Andrew 22 March 2013 10 of the Best Contemporary Spanish Authors Culture Trip Retrieved 5 December 2020 Javier Marias www ndbooks com 8 September 2011 Retrieved 5 December 2020 a b Noiville Florence 12 September 2022 Award winning Spanish novelist Javier Marias dies aged 70 Le Monde Retrieved 13 September 2022 a b Risen Clay 12 September 2022 Javier Marias to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist Dies at 70 The New York Times Retrieved 13 September 2022 Javier Marias el sempiterno candidato espanol al Nobel de Literatura Cadena COPE 11 September 2022 a b c d Bartels Gerrit 11 September 2022 Autor von Mein Herz so weiss Spanischer Schriftsteller Javier Marias gestorben Der Tagesspiegel Online in German ISSN 1865 2263 Retrieved 13 September 2022 a b Lasdun James 21 November 2009 Your Face Tomorrow III by Javier Marias Book review The Guardian Retrieved 13 September 2022 a b c Fuente Ulises 11 September 2022 Muere el escritor Javier Marias uno de los mas importantes en lengua castellana La Razon a b c Edemariam Aida 6 May 2005 Profile Javier Marias The Guardian Retrieved 12 September 2022 a b Javier Marias internationales literaturfestival berlin in German Retrieved 12 September 2022 Wood Gareth 3 May 2012 Javier Marias s Debt to Translation Sterne Browne Nabokov Oxford Oxford University Press p 3 ISBN 978 0 19 965133 7 Hardworking King of Redonda New new Directions Publishing biography Archived 4 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine Smith Zadie March 2011 New Books While the Women are Sleeping Harper s 322 1 930 69 Retrieved 9 May 2011 a b LOS DOMINIOS DEL LOBO a b c d Marcos Javier Rodriguez 11 September 2022 Spanish literary great Javier Marias dies aged 70 El Pais Retrieved 11 September 2022 lecturalia com Travesia del horizonte Javier Marias in Spanish El pensamiento literario de Javier Marias in Spanish Brill 22 February 2022 p 87 ISBN 978 90 04 48537 2 Javier Marias traductor Javier Marias Retrieved 13 September 2022 Javier Marias traductor Vasos Comunicantes Revista de ACE Traductores in Spanish 12 September 2022 Retrieved 13 September 2022 A History of Spanish at Oxford University of Oxford Retrieved 12 September 2022 a b La vida de Javier Marias a traves de sus obras El Independiente in Spanish 11 September 2022 Retrieved 13 September 2022 Caparros Lera Jose Maria 1999 El cine de nuestros dias 1994 1998 The Cinema of Our Days 1994 1998 in Spanish Ediciones Rialp p 83 ISBN 9788432132339 Retrieved 19 July 2018 via Google Books Corazon tan blanco Resumen y todo lo que se desconoce Resumimos Todos Los Libros Y Novelas que existen in Spanish 9 March 2018 Retrieved 11 September 2022 Proctor Minna 1 January 1998 Javier Marias s A Heart So White Bomb Magazine Retrieved 11 September 2022 Battersby Eileen 15 May 1997 Spaniard awarded 100 000 Dublin literary prize The Irish Times Retrieved 11 September 2022 Piqueras Jose A 1 January 2001 El juego de la ventriloquia politica in Spanish El Pais Archived from the original on 3 December 2015 Retrieved 1 October 2020 En la memorable novela Manana en la batalla piensa en mi Javier Marias crea un personaje protagonista de la trama que convierte en escritor y ejerce de negro literario Martin Tim 23 November 2009 Your Face Tomorrow 3 Poison Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias review telegraph co uk Risen Clay 12 September 2022 Javier Marias to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist Dies at 70 The New York Times Jones Sam 11 September 2022 Spanish novelist Javier Marias dies at home in Madrid aged 70 The Guardian Retrieved 12 September 2022 a b c Javier Marias Believer Magazine Retrieved 13 September 2022 a b c Javier Marias veinte anos como rey de Redonda Zenda in Spanish 14 November 2020 Retrieved 12 September 2022 Wood Gareth 2012 pp 1 2 Dark Back of Time at Complete Review Wood Gareth J 2012 Javier Marias s Debt to Translation Complete Review a b c Edemariam Aida 7 May 2005 Looking for Luisa The Guardian a b Manguel Alberto 12 September 2022 Javier Marias modern literature s great philosopher of everyday absurdity The Guardian This allowed Marias to confer titles to many of his literary friends WG Sebald was made Duke of Vertigo and Francis Ford Coppola the Duke of Megalopolis a b c d e Wood Gareth 2012 p 36 Fernandez Santos Elsa 24 April 2001 El novelista surafricano J M Coetzee logra el I Premio Reino de Redonda El Pais in Spanish ISSN 1134 6582 Retrieved 12 September 2022 20 anos de Reino de Redonda el sello de Javier Marias El Mundo in Spanish 28 January 2019 Retrieved 12 September 2022 Ray Bradbury obtiene el VI Premio Reino de Redonda El Pais in Spanish 24 April 2006 ISSN 1134 6582 Retrieved 12 September 2022 Fallo del VII Premio Reino de Redonda 3 May 2007 Umberto Eco reconocido con el Premio Reino de Redonda por el conjunto de su obra La Voz de Galicia in Spanish 11 April 2008 Retrieved 12 September 2022 Marc Fumaroli gana el premio Reino de Redonda El Pais in Spanish 27 April 2009 ISSN 1134 6582 Retrieved 12 September 2022 El Espejo del Mar Recuerdos e impresiones Ian McEwan gana el premio Reino de Redonda El Pais in Spanish 26 May 2011 ISSN 1134 6582 Retrieved 12 September 2022 Spanish author Javier Marias dies aged 70 after bout of pneumonia 12 September 2022 Spanish author Javier Marias dies aged 70 after bout of pneumonia caused by Covid 19 South China Morning Post Agence France Presse 12 September 2022 Mendoza Eduardo 11 September 2022 Javier Marias un triste recuerdo El Pais in Spanish Retrieved 11 September 2022 Premios Fray Luis de Leon de traduccion El Pais in Spanish 29 December 1979 ISSN 1134 6582 Retrieved 13 September 2022 Literatura en Llengua Castellana Premis ciutat de Barcelona in Catalan Retrieved 13 September 2022 What do Fastenrath Award and Javier Marias have in common hyperleapsite Retrieved 11 September 2022 Coppermann Annie 5 November 1996 Premier round des prix d automne Les Echos in French Retrieved 13 September 2022 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 12 May 2015 Previous Winners IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 12 May 2015 Javier Marias Real Academia Espanola in Spanish Archived from the original on 25 October 2015 Javier Marias joins Spanish Royal Academy permanent dead link Marcos Javier Rodriguez 15 January 2011 Javier Marias gana en Italia el Premio Nonino El Pais in Spanish ISSN 1134 6582 Retrieved 13 September 2022 Winston Manrique Sabogal 23 April 2013 El Formentor rinde homenaje a la literatura de Javier Marias El Pais in Spanish Retrieved 23 April 2013 Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 National Book Critics Circle 14 January 2014 Retrieved 14 January 2014 Javier Marias LIBER 2017 Award for the most outstanding Hispano American author www ifema es Retrieved 11 September 2022 Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced Royal Society of Literature 30 November 2021 Retrieved 25 December 2021 Marias Javier 6 April 2011 Los dominios del lobo in Spanish Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Espana ISBN 978 84 204 9947 5 Voyage Along the Horizon Goodreads Retrieved 11 September 2022 El monarca del tiempo Book 1978 WorldCat org OCLC 1088080717 Retrieved 11 September 2022 via www worldcat org Marias Javier 1983 El siglo in Spanish Seix Barral ISBN 978 84 322 4509 1 lecturalia com El hombre sentimental Javier Marias in Spanish Marias Javier 2000 All Souls New Directions Publishing ISBN 978 0 8112 1453 7 A Heart So White www goodreads com Retrieved 11 September 2022 Marias Javier 2001 Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me New Directions Publishing ISBN 978 0 8112 1482 7 Dark Back of Time Javier Marias www complete review com Retrieved 11 September 2022 Fever and Spear Your Face Tomorrow 1 Goodreads Retrieved 11 September 2022 Your Face Tomorrow Vol 2 Dance amp Dream New Directions Publishing 1 May 2008 Retrieved 11 September 2022 Marias The Infatuations The Modern Novel www themodernnovel org Retrieved 11 September 2022 Berta Isla by Javier Marias review secret life of a spy The Guardian 18 October 2018 Retrieved 11 September 2022 Theroux Marcel 18 October 2018 Berta Isla by Javier Marias review secret life of a spy The Guardian Retrieved 11 September 2022 Edizioni Ca Foscari edizionicafoscari unive it Retrieved 11 September 2022 While the Women are Sleeping Javier Marias www complete review com Retrieved 11 September 2022 When I Was Mortal New Directions Publishing 1 September 2002 Retrieved 11 September 2022 Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico www goodreads com Retrieved 11 September 2022 Between Eternities by Javier Marias 9781101972113 PenguinRandomHouse com Books PenguinRandomhouse com Retrieved 11 September 2022 Smith PD 13 May 2016 Written Lives by Javier Marias review 26 literary figures examined The Guardian Retrieved 11 September 2022 Venice an interior WorldCat Further reading EditBerg Karen Javier Marias s Postmodern Praxis Humor and Interplay Between Reality and Fiction in His Novels and Essays 2008 Doctoral dissertation 2006 later published as book ISBN 978 3 63945 397 3 2012 ed Cunado Isabel El Espectro de la Herencia La Narrativa de Javier Marias 2004 ISBN 978 9 04201 612 5 Herzberger David K A Companion to Javier Marias Rochester NY Tamesis Books 2011 ISBN 978 1 85566 230 8 Miles Valerie 2014 A Thousand Forests in One Acorn Rochester NY Open Letter pp 585 616 ISBN 978 1 934824 91 7 External links Edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Javier Marias nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Javier Marias Sarah Fay Winter 2006 Javier Marias The Art of Fiction No 190 The Paris Review Winter 2006 179 Chelsea Bauch Exclusive Q amp A Spanish Author Javier Marias 30 November 2009 Airships translated by Margaret Jull Costa Granta 107 Summer 2009 Javier Marias BBC HardTalk Extra 3 March 2006 Video Wyatt Mason A Man Who Wasn t There The New Yorker 14 November 2005 Feeling London s bombs in Madrid The New York Times 11 July 2005 Sarah Emily Miano Betrayal of a blood brother The Observer 8 May 2005 How to remember how to forget The New York Times 11 September 2004 Fewer Scruples Barcelona Review No 15 November 1999 The Limits of Human Memory On Proust and Javier Marias Archived 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Quarterly Conversation Issue 17 John M Keller Interview with Javier Marias Dr Cicero Spring 2021 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Javier Marias amp oldid 1180056756, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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