Javier Cercas
Spanish writer, journalist and professor (born 1962)
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
Cercas and the second or maternal family name is
Mena .
Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962) is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona , Spain. Awards he has won for his novels include the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Soldiers of Salamis (translated by Anne McLean ), and the European Book Prize for The Impostor (translated by Frank Wynne .
Biography
Javier Cercas 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 Urbana-Champaign in Illinois , United States.[3]
He is part of a group of well-known Spanish novelists who have published "historical memory" fiction, focusing on the Spanish Civil War and Francoist state , including Julio Llamazares , Andrés Trapiello , and Jesús Ferrero .[4]
Soldiers of Salamis (translated by Anne McLean ) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004.[5] McLean's translations of his novels The Speed of Light and Outlaws were also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award , in 2008 and 2016 respectively.
During the 2014–15 academic year , he was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at St Anne's College at Oxford , England.[6] He was awarded the 2016 European Book Prize for The Impostor .
Bibliography
1987, El móvil
1989, El inquilino (The Tenant and the Motive ) (English translation, 2005)
1994, La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez
1997, El vientre de la ballena
1998, Una buena temporada
2000, Relatos reales
2001, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis ) (English translation by Anne McLean , 2004)
2005, La velocidad de la luz (The Speed of Light ) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2006)
2009, Anatomía de un instante (The Anatomy of a Moment ) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2011)
2012, Las leyes de la frontera ( published as Outlaws) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2014)
2014, El Impostor [es ] (The Impostor ) (English translation by Frank Wynne , 2017)
2017, El monarca de las sombras (Literatura Random House, February 2017)[7]
2018, The Blind Spot (MacLehose Press) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2018)
2019, Terra Alta (Even the Darkest Night ) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2022)
Notes
^ Elected on 13 June 2024
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[1] He was elected in 1900 but never took the seat; [2] He was elected in 1904 but never took the seat; [3] He was elected in 1918 but never took the seat
[1] He/she was elected but is pending to take the seat
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Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
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Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
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Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
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Xu Huainzhong , Xiao Xue , Yu Yougqnan , Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)
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Valerio Magrelli (1980)
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri , Laura Mancinelli (1981)
Jolanda Insana (1982)
Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
Aldo Busi (1984)
Elisabetta Rasy , Dario Villa (1985)
Marco Lodoli , Angelo Mainardi (1986)
Marco Ceriani , Giovanni Giudice (1987)
Edoardo Albinati , Silvana La Spina (1988)
Andrea Canobbio , Romana Petri (1990)
Anna Cascella (1991)
Marco Caporali , Nelida Milani (1992)
Silvana Grasso , Giulio Mozzi (1993)
Ernesto Franco (1994)
Roberto Deidier (1995)
Giuseppe Quatriglio , Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
Alba Donati (1998)
Paolo Febbraro (1999)
Evelina Santangelo (2000)
Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
Giovanni Bergamini , Simona Corso (2003)
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
Francesco Fontana (2006)
Paolo Fallai (2007)
Luca Giachi (2008)
Carlo Carabba (2009)
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
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Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
Italo Calvino (1984)
Mario Luzi (1985)
Paolo Volponi (1986)
Luigi Malerba (1987)
Oreste del Buono (1988)
Giovanni Macchia (1989)
Gianni Celati , Emilio Villa (1990)
Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
Luigi Meneghello (1994)
Fernando Bandini , Michele Perriera (1995)
Nico Orengo (1996)
Giuseppe Bonaviri , Giovanni Raboni (1997)
Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
Elio Bartolini (2000)
Roberto Alajmo (2001)
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