Javier MarÃas
Javier Marías Franco [ xaβjeɾ maɾi.as ] ( born September 20, 1951 in Madrid ) is a Spanish writer, columnist and translator.
Life
Javier Marías Franco was born the fourth of five children in Madrid. His mother was the teacher Dolores Franco Manera, his father Julián Marías Aguilera philosopher. The father confessed to Republican politics and was therefore persecuted by the Franco regime, imprisoned and temporarily occupied by a prohibition.
Javier Marías grew temporarily lived in the United States. His father taught at several universities, including Yale and Wellesley College. The family lived there temporarily in the house of the Spanish writer Jorge Guillén, where she made the acquaintance of the writer and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov, who was also a guest there. 1959 returned the parents back to Madrid. Javier Marías attended the liberal school Colegio Estudio in the subsequent period. 1968-1973 studied Marías Literature and Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid. During his studies, the author of the Communist faction of the Revolutionary Committee was action, but later distanced himself from her and stressed his political independence. Later he became involved in the Parlamento Internacional de Escritores for in distress intellectuals and fellow writers, for example, during the Balkan wars and the war in Chechnya.
He earned his first money with translations and short appearances in films of his uncle, the director Jesús Franco. From 1974 he lived in Barcelona and worked for the publishing house Alfaguara. In 1978 he moved back to Madrid. He wrote to own novels and short stories, translated, especially from English, and published articles in newspapers and magazines. For the translation of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne in 1979 he received the Premio Nacional de Traducción price.
1983 Marías went to Oxford, where he gave lessons in Spanish literature and translation. The following year he taught his father at Wellesley College in Boston. From 1986 he lived and worked in Venice. Since 1987 he has been living in Madrid and teaches at the University Complutense of Madrid.
Marías is a fan of soccer club Real Madrid and " king" of the uninhabited Caribbean island of Redonda.
Works
With eleven years Marías stories began to write. At the age of 15 he had his first novel La Víspera completed, which was never released.
In the summer of 1969, he wrote his second novel in Paris Los dominios del lobo, which was published in 1971. The next year he met the writer Juan Benet know and joined the circle of authors to.
With the novel El hombre sentimental (1986 The man of feeling ), he won the Premio de Novela Herralde in the Year of the plant.
The 1992's novel Corazón tan blanco ( My heart so white ) has been translated into many languages ( German, 1996) and an international success. In Germany, the novel learned the recognition of Marcel Reich -Ranicki in the television show The Literary Quartet. Both of my heart so white as well for his next novel, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (1994, morning at the battle think of me ) were awarded him numerous awards. 1997 Marías was awarded for his overall work of Nelly Sachs Prize.
By 2012, his works had reached a total worldwide circulation of more than six million copies sold. They have been translated into 34 languages and published in more than 50 countries.
2011: Ven a buscarme
Awards
- 2011 - Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- 2012 - National Literature Prize of the Spanish Government (rejected ) The mortal lovers for his novel