A regular on the lists of candidates for the Nobel Prize for Literature each year, he is considered one of the best novelists of recent decades in Spanish, as well as an essayist and short story author.
The writer Javier Marías, one of the most celebrated Spanish novelists of recent decades, died this Sunday (09.11.2022) in Madrid at the age of 70 due to pneumonia, his editorial indicated.
«With great sadness, from Alfaguara and on behalf of his family, we regret to inform you that this afternoon our great author and friend Javier Marías passed away in Madrid, suffering from pneumonia that he had suffered for a few weeks and which became more complicated in the last few hours» , the publisher said in a statement.
Last August, the publisher reported that the writer and academic Javier Marías (Madrid, 1951) suffered from a lung condition “from which he was in the process of recovering.”
“Rest in peace. His work will keep him alive in our memory », the Minister of Culture of Spain, Miquel Iceta, wrote on Twitter.
Regular on Nobel Prize for Literature lists
Marías occupied the “R” chair of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2008 and was the son of the philosopher Julián Marías, who was also a member of this entity.
A regular on the lists of candidates for the Nobel Prize for Literature each year, he is considered one of the best novelists of recent decades in Spanish, as well as an essayist and short story author.
In addition to the numerous awards he received during his career, the recognition of Javier Marías by critics and the public can be deduced from many figures: the author of sixteen novels, as well as books of essays, stories and hundreds of newspaper articles, his works they have been published in forty-six languages and in fifty-nine countries, with nearly nine million copies sold.
More than five decades dedicated to writing
During five decades of professional career he received numerous awards in Spain, other European countries or the José Donoso in 2008 for the whole of his work awarded by the University of Talca in Chile.
Javier Marías was the author of fifteen novels, including “El hombre sentimental” (Ennio Flaiano Award), “Todos las almas” (City of Barcelona Award), or “Corazón tan blanco” (Critics Award, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , Prix l’Oeil et la Lettre).
Other of her novels are “Tomorrow in the battle think of me” (Rómulo Gallegos Award, Prix Femina Etranger, Mondello Award, Fastenrath Award), “Berta Isla” (Critics Award, Dulce Chacón Award, Best Book of the Year in Babelia , in Corriere della Sera and in Público de Portugal) and «Tomás Nevison», his latest book, published in March.
Last December he was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK charity for the promotion of literature, a list that includes, among other writers, David Grossman, Annie Ernaux, Amin Maalouf and Olga Tokarczuk.
His works have been published in forty-six languages and in fifty-nine countries, with nearly nine million copies sold.
Specialist in English Philology
With a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the Complutense University of Madrid, Marías specialized in English philology and taught as a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) and at Wellesley College (United States), and as a professor of Translation Theory at the Institute of Modern Languages and Translators of the Complutense University.
He also translated important Anglo-Saxon authors such as Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Laurence Sterne, Yeats, Robert L. Stevenson and Thomas Browne.
In recent times, his public appearances and interviews were few, although he continued to publish books and newspaper articles.
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