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About Javier Marias

Javier Marías nació en Madrid en 1951. Es autor de las novelas Los dominios del lobo, Travesía del horizonte, El monarca del tiempo, El siglo, El hombre sentimental, Todas las almas, Corazón tan blanco, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, Negra espalda del tiempo, Tu rostro mañana: Fiebre y lanza y Tu rostro mañana: Baile y sueño, entre otros muchos relatos, ensayos, antologías y traducciones. Ha recibido numerosos premios, entre los que cabe destacar el Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano, el IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, el Premio Internacional Rómulo Gallegos, el Premio de la Crítica y el Prix Femina Étranger. Fue profesor en la Universidad de Oxford y en la Complutense de Madrid. Sus obras se han traducido a treinta y cuatro lenguas y se han publicado en cuarenta y cuatro países.

Praise

"Stylish, cerebral...Marías is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." --The New York Times

"One of the writers who should get the Nobel Prize is Javier Marías." --Orhan Pamuk

“His prose demonstrates an unusual blend of sophistication and accessibility.” —The New Yorker

“Marías is one of the best contemporary writers.” —J. M. Coetzee

"By far Spain's best writer today." --Roberto Bolaño

"A great writer." --Salman Rushdie

"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --Boston Sunday Globe

"Marías is simply astonishing." --The Times Literary Supplement 

 “Javier Marías is such an elegant, witty and persuasive writer that it is tempting simply to quote him at length.” —The Scotsman

"Marías uses language like an anatomist uses the scalpel to cut away the layers of the flesh in order to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being." --W. G. Sebald

"His prose possesses an exquisite, almost uncanny observation, recreating moments and moods in hypnotic depth." --The Telegraph

“Javier Marías is a novelist with style . . . His readers enter, through him, a strikingly and disturbingly foreign world.” —Margaret Drabble

"A supreme stylist." --The Times

"Marías writes the kind of old-fashioned speculative prose we associate with Proust and Henry James. . . .  But he also deals in violence, historical and personal, and in the movie titles, politicians, and brand-names and underwear we connect with quite a different kind of writer." --The London Review of Books