Javier Cercas

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Javier Cercas Mena

1962 (age 6061)
Ibahernando, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Alma mater University of Girona
Occupation(s)professor, writer

Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain.

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He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain. [1] [2] 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. [3]

He is one of a group of well-known Spanish novelists, which includes Julio Llamazares, Andrés Trapiello, and Jesus Ferrero, who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist State. [4]

Soldiers of Salamis (translated by Anne McLean) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004, [5] and McLean's translations of his novels The Speed of Light and Outlaws were shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and 2016 respectively.

In 2014–15, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford. [6] In 2016 he was awarded the European Book Prize for The Imposter.

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References

  1. Clubcultura. "Biografía" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. ABC (26 September 2012). "Javier Cercas: "No soy independentista y no me gustan las aventuras"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  3. "Javier Cercas in conversation". 'SPAIN arts & culture' is the official website for the promotion of Spain's arts and culture in the USA. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  4. Gina Herrmann, Mass Graves on Spanish TV, essay in Unearthing Franco's Legacy, p.172, 2010
  5. "Arts Council England : Press release detail". 2007-09-27. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  6. "Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature".
  7. El País (Spanish) http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/19/actualidad/1476900255_158077.html