Alfons Cervera

Alfons Cervera (* 1947 in Gestalgar, Valencia ) is a Spanish author who writes in Castilian and Valencian .

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Since the end of the 1990s, Cervera has concentrated in his oeuvre on regaining historical memories of the Spanish Civil War .

In his last novels he describes part of the history of Spain from the perspective of the losers of the war. They are voices that reflect the moral superiority of those who were oppressed during the Franco regime , then forgotten by the political pact of the Spanish transformation to democracy, and partially rehabilitated since the end of the 20th century.

In the 1980s he worked as a journalist for the radio stations Radio 3 and Radio 9, as well as for the newspapers Levante-EMV and Cartelera Turia , where he wrote the opinion columns (with a preference for social topics) and cultural criticism (mainly literary and music criticism) .

Some of his novels have been translated into French and German.

Novels

• De vampiros y otros asuntos amorosos (1984)
• Fragmentos de abril (1985)
• La ciudad oscura (1987)
• Nunca conocí un corazón tan solitario (1987)
• El domador de leones (1989)
• Nos veremos en París, seguramente (1993)
• El color del crepúsculo (1995)
• Els paradisos artificials (1995)
• Maquis (1997)
• La noche inmóvil (1999)
• La risa del idiota (2000)
• L'home mort (2001)
• El hombre muerto (2002)
• La sombra del cielo (2003)
• Aquel invierno (2005) (in German: Die Farben der Angst , translated from Spanish by Erich Hackl , Bahoe Books , Vienna 2020)
• La lentitud del espía (2007)
• Esas vidas (2009)
• Tantas lágrimas han corrido desde entonces (2012)
• Las voces fugitivas (2013)
• Todo lejos (2014)
• La noche en que los Beatles llegaron a Barcelona (2018)

Poems

• Canción para Chose (1985)
• Francia (1986)
• Hyde Park Blues (1987)
• Sessió contínua (1987)
• Los cuerpos del delito (2003)

Web links

• Homepage of the author