Javier Sierra

Javier Sierra (2009).

Javier Sierra ( Javier Sierra Albert ; born August 11, 1971 in Teruel ) is a Spanish journalist and writer who deals in particular with historical puzzles and parasciences .

life and work

From an early age, Sierra was fascinated by the world of communication. At the age of twelve he had his own radio show on Radio Heraldo , at 16 he wrote regularly for magazines and at 18 he was one of the founders of the magazine Año Cero . He studied information science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid .

From 1998 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia , whose advisor he is still today. He is also involved in various radio and television programs. Sierra spends a lot of time traveling, researching puzzles of the past and historical mysteries.

Sierra works with Spanish as well as international experts, such as B. Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval to track down an alleged golden age of mankind. This golden age perished 10,500 years ago and was the origin of the civilizations that followed.

His novel The Secret Last Supper was published in 40 countries and became one of the greatest international successes in Spanish literature. With him he was the first Spanish writer to be included in the top ten of the New York Times bestseller list in March 2006 .

Sierra worked on the anthology Relatos Ferroviarios Sobre Raíles ( Imagine Ediciones , 2003), along with other writers such as Juan Eslava Galán , Dulce Chacón , Espido Freire , Javier García Sánchez and Eugenia Rico . He also gave the collection of novels La Cámara Secreta , the works of authors such as B. Christian Jacq , Philipp Vandenberg , Larry Collins , Valerio Evangelisti or Gérald Messadié , and provided them with a foreword.

In October 2017 Sierra received the Premio Planeta for his novel El fuego invisible ( The invisible fire ).

Works

Fiction

• The secret of the Spanish nun. Roman ("La Dama Azul"). New edition Blanvalet, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-36957-7 .
• The gates of the Templars. Roman ("Las puertas templarias"). 2nd edition Blanvalet, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-36729-0 .
  • The gate of the Templars. Audio book . Abridged reading. Random House Audio, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-86604-544-6 (6 CDs, read by Gerd Köster ).
• The secret supper. Historical novel ("La Cena Secreta"). Limes, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8090-2526-9 .
  • The secret supper. Audio book . Abridged reading. Random House Audion Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-86604-472-2 (6 CCDs, read by Alexander May ).

Non-fiction

• Roswell . Secreto de Estado qué se esconde tras la polémica filmación de los extraterrestres de Roswell . EDAF, Madrid 1995, ISBN 84-414-0002-4 .
• La España Extraña . EDAF, Madrid 1997, ISBN 978-84-834-6564-6 (together with Jesús Callejo).
• La ruta prohibida y otros enigmas de la historia . Editorial Planeta, Barcelona 2007.
• En busca de la Edad de Oro . New edition Debolsillo, Barcelona 2007, ISBN 978-84-8346-561-5 .
• El secreto egipcio de Napoleon . La Esfera, Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-9734-043-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Javier Sierra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website (Spanish, with English version)
• Website The Secret Supper (English)