Ildefonso Falcones

Ildefonso Falcone de Sierra ( b. 1959 Barcelona ) is a Spanish writer.

Falcone's works in Barcelona as a lawyer and director of his own firm. In addition to his professional activity in which he immersed himself in the medieval legal history of Catalonia, his first work was in five years' work The Cathedral of the Sea, a commonly located in the medieval historical novel in the context of the construction of the church of Santa Maria del Mar.

Since its release in late 2006, the book in Spain sold two million copies to date. Meanwhile, it is translated in more than 30 countries published, so in December 2007 also in Germany.

His second novel, The Pillars of the Faith was released in 2009 in Spain and 2010 in Germany. In it, Falcone told through the fictional life story of the protagonist Hernando Ruiz the history of the Moors in Andalusia by the uprising in the Alpujarras (1568) on the Lead Books of Sacromonte until the final expulsion of the Moors from Spain ( 1609-1611 ).

His third novel (2013 ), " La reina Descalza " (literally: The Barefoot Queen ) has not been translated into German.

Falcone is a former Spanish junior champion in show jumping in Spain and still active equestrian athletes.

Works

• The Cathedral of the Sea ( orig.: La Catedral del Mar, Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori, SL 2006), from Spanish by Lisa Green iron, Frankfurt am Main: Joke / S. Fischer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-10097-3

• The pillars of faith ( orig.: La Mano de Fátima to German: The Hand of Fatima, published by Grijalbo, Barcelona 2009), from the Spanish by Stefanie Karg, C. Bertelsmann Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10045-5

• La Reina Descalza, Random House Mondadori SA, 2013 ( " The Barefoot Queen ", not yet available in German translation )