Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas (* 1962 in Ibahernando, Cáceres Province / Extremadura ) is a Spanish novelist and journalist.

Biography

Javier Cercas came as the son of a veterinarian for the world. His family moved in 1966 from Extremadura to the Catalan Girona. When he discovered as a 14- year-old the works of Jorge Luis Borges, he felt called to be a writer. In 1985, he presented at the University of Barcelona his degree in Spanish philology 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 in Urbana, where he wrote his first novel. Javier Cercas has taught since 1989 as a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, is married and has a son.

With his third novel Soldados de Salamina, which appeared as soldiers of Salamis in German translation in 2002, he became known to a large audience after Mario Vargas Llosa, John Maxwell Coetzee and Susan Sontag had drawn attention in laudatory reviews on him. He is also a regular contributor to the Catalan edition and the Sunday supplement of El País.

Awards

The following prizes were Javier Cercas been awarded by the critics: Premio Salambó (2001), Grinzane Cavour de narrativa (2003 ), price of Chilean criticism, Prize of the City of Barcelona, the price of Cartagena, the second prize of the book trade (all 2001), the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2004) and La Medalla de Extremadura (2005 ) and the Premio Nacional de Anatomia de un Narrativa for Instante (2010).

His work has been translated into more than twenty languages ​​. Cercas himself transferred alongside HG Wells and contemporary Catalan writers into Spanish.

In 2009, he came with the presentation of the failed coup of 23 February 1981 in his novel - essay Anatomía de un instante (German anatomy of a moment, 2011) No. 1 on the books of the year list of El País.

Works

  • El móvil. Narratives. 1987
  • El inquilino. Novel. 1989 (Eng. The tenant. Translated by Willi Zurbrüggen. Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-1217-6 )
  • El vientre de la Ballena. Novel. 1997
  • Soldados de Salamina. Novel. 2001 ( German Soldiers of 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. Was the night, the Spanish 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.
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