Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas (born in Ibahernando , Province of Cáceres / Extremadura in 1962 ) is a Spanish writer and journalist .
biography
Javier Cercas was born to a veterinarian. His family moved from Extremadura to Girona, Catalonia , in 1966 . When he discovered the works of Jorge Luis Borges at the age of 14 , he felt called to be a writer. In 1985 he passed his exams in Spanish Philology at the University of Barcelona and received his doctorate there. In the second half of the 1980s he worked for two years as a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana , where he wrote his first novel. Javier Cercas has been a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona since 1989 , is married and has one son.
With his third novel Soldados de Salamina , which appeared in German translation in 2002 as Soldiers of Salamis , he became known to a large audience after Mario Vargas Llosa , John Maxwell Coetzee and Susan Sontag had drawn attention to him in positive reviews. He is also a permanent contributor to the Catalan edition and the Sunday supplement of El País .
Awards
Javier Cercas has received the following prizes so far: Premio Salambó (2001), Grinzane Cavour de narrativa (2003), Prize of the Chilean Criticism, Prize of the City of Barcelona, Prize of Cartagena, the Second Prize of the Book Trade (all 2001), Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2004) and La Medalla de Extremadura (2005), the Premio Nacional de Narrativa for Anatomia de un Instante (2010), the Prix Méditerranée Étranger for Les lois de la frontière (2014) and the 2016 European Book Prize for the novel El impostor .
His work has been translated into more than twenty languages to date. In addition to HG Wells , Cercas himself translated contemporary Catalan authors into Spanish.
In 2009 he came with the depiction of the failed coup of February 23, 1981 in his novel-essay Anatomía de un instante (German anatomy of a moment , 2011) at number 1 of the books of the year list by El País .
The novel Outlaws was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2016 .
Works (selection)
- El móvil. Narratives . 1987
- El inquilino. Novel . 1989 (German. The tenant . Translated by Willi Zurbrüggen. Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-1217-6 )
- The vientre de la ballena. Novel. 1997
- Soldados de Salamina. Novel. 2001 (German soldiers from Salamis . Translated by Willi Zurbrüggen. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-8270-0464-0 )
- La velocidad de la luz. Novel. 2005
- Anatomía de un instante. Essay . 2009 (German anatomy of a moment . The night in which Spain's democracy was saved. Translated by Peter Kultzen . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-011369-6 )
- Las leyes de la frontera . Mondadori, 2012. (German Outlaws . Translated by Peter Kultzen. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014. ISBN 978-3-10-403149-1 )
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El impostor (2014) (novel about Enric Marco )
- The wrong survivor . Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kultzen. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002461-9 ( about the book ).
- El monarca de las sombras . Barcelona: Random House, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Javier Cercas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Javier Cercas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Javier Cercas in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism ( memento of January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) by Alberto Manguel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cercas, Javier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ibahernando , Cáceres |