Javier Cercas
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Javier Cercas (born 1962, Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain) is a writer and, since 1989, a Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of El País and the Sunday supplement. He worked for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.
[edit] Bibliography
- El móvil (1987)
- El inquilino (The Tenant and the Motive) (1989, English translation, 2005)
- La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez (1994)
- El vientre de la ballena (1997)
- Una buena temporada (1998)
- Relatos reales (2000)
- Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis) (2001, English translation, 2004) – Story of an incident during the Spanish Civil War
- La velocidad de la luz (The Speed of Light) (2005, English translation, 2006) – Story of a friendship with a Vietnam War veteran
- Anatomía de un instante (The Anatomy of a Moment) (2009, English translation, 2011) – Non-fiction work about the failed "23-F" coup d'état in Spain on 23 February 1981
[edit] External links
- Berlin Literature Festival Bio (2009)
- The right to self destruction. Translation of El derecho a destruirse published in El País Semanal on 4-Dec-2005.
- Saying the right thing. Translation of La corrección de la incorrección published in EL PAIS SEMANAL - 29-01-2006.
