Juan José Millás

Juan José Millás Garcia ( born January 31, 1946 in Valencia, Spain ) is a Spanish writer.

Life

The entire family Millás moved in 1952 to Madrid, where the writer spent most of his adult life. He studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, he broke off in the third year. He took a job at the airline Iberia and dealt privately with reading and writing. His first works are (December 2010) has not been published in German language, although his short novel Cerbero son las sombras in 1974 was awarded the Premio Sésamo Millás and thus became known critics. This was followed by Visión de Ahogado (1977) and El jardin vacio (1981). Papel mojado of 1983 was laid in 1987 under the same title in Germany. Since the 1980s, he also worked as a journalist in the press and television.

Since 1987 Millás is married to his second wife Isabel Menéndez and has made ​​this connection a second child.

Honors and Awards

Works in German language (selection)

• My street was the world. translated by Peter Schwaar. (Spanish: El mundo ). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-049013-1.
• Together with Juan Madrid and Javier Marías: La otra cara de Madrid, Cornelsen, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-464-20293-7.
• Two women in Prague. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24457-7.
• The alphabetical order. (Spanish: El orden alfabético ), German paperback publishing house, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-24348-1.
• That was the loneliness. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40393-1.
• Your confusing name. (Spanish: El desorden de tu nombre ), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11623-1.
• Papel mojado. Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-12-561870-3.