Ildefonso Falcones
Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra (* 1959 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish writer.
Falcones works as a lawyer in Barcelona and runs his own law firm there. In addition to his professional activity, in which he immersed himself in the medieval legal history of Catalonia , his first work The Cathedral of the Sea , a historical novel set in the Middle Ages against the background of the construction of the Church of Santa Maria del Mar , was created over five years .
Since its publication in late 2006, the book has sold two million copies in Spain. It has now been translated into more than 30 countries, including Germany in December 2007.
His second novel The Pillars of Faith was published in Spain in 2009 and in Germany in 2010. In it, Falcones uses the fictional life story of the protagonist Hernando Ruiz to tell the story of the Moriscos in Andalusia, from the uprising in the Alpujarras (1568) to the lead books from the Sacromonte to the final expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609–1611).
His third novel “La reina descalza” (2013) was published in 2014 under the title Das Lied der Freiheit in German.
Falcones is a former Spanish junior champion in show jumping and is still an active equestrian today.
Works
- The Cathedral of the Sea (orig .: La Catedral del Mar , Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori, SL 2006), from the Spanish by Lisa Grüneisen, Frankfurt am Main: Scherz / S. Fischer Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-10097-3 ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from January 21 to February 24, 2008 )
- The pillars of faith (orig .: La Mano de Fátima , in German: Die Hand Fatima, Verlag Grijalbo, Barcelona 2009), from the Spanish by Stefanie Karg, C. Bertelsmann Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10045-5
- The song of freedom (orig .: La Reina Descalza , in German: The barefoot queen, Random House Mondadori SA, 2013)
- The heirs of the earth (orig. Los herederos de la tierra , 2016), C. Bertelsmann Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-570-10354-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Author profile Bazar Verlag ( Memento from April 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Source: Neue Westfälische from September 25, 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ildefonso Falcones in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ildefonso Falcones at perlentaucher.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Falcones, Ildefonso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Falcones de Sierra, Ildefonso (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |