Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas (2019)
Born	Javier Cercas Mena 1962 (age 58–59) Ibahernando, Spain
Nationality	Spain
Alma mater	University of Girona
Occupation	professor, writer

Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain.

He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain.^[1]^[2] He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of El País and the Sunday supplement. He worked for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.

He is one of a group of well-known Spanish novelists, which includes Julio Llamazares, Andrés Trapiello, and Jesus Ferrero, who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist State.^[3]

Soldiers of Salamis (translated by Anne McLean) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004,^[4] and McLean's translations of his novels The Speed of Light and Outlaws were shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and 2016 respectively.

In 2014–15, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford.^[5] In 2016 he was awarded the European Book Prize for The Imposter.

Bibliography[]

1987, El móvil
1989, El inquilino (The Tenant and the Motive) (English translation, 2005)
1994, La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez
1997, El vientre de la ballena
1998, Una buena temporada
2000, Relatos reales
2001, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2004)
2005, La velocidad de la luz (The Speed of Light) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2006)
2009, Anatomía de un instante (The Anatomy of a Moment) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2011)
2012, Las leyes de la frontera (published as Outlaws) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2014)
2014, [es] (The Impostor) (English translation by Frank Wynne, 2017)
2017, El monarca de las sombras (Literatura Random House, Feb 2017)^[6]
2018, The Blind Spot (MacLeHose Press) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2018)

References[]

^ Clubcultura. "Biografía" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
^ ABC (26 September 2012). "Javier Cercas: "No soy independentista y no me gustan las aventuras"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2014.
^ Gina Herrmann, Mass Graves on Spanish TV, essay in Unearthing Franco's Legacy, p.172, 2010
^ "Arts Council England : Press release detail". 2007-09-27. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
^ http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/weidenfeld-visiting-professorship-in-comparative-european-literature
^ El País (Spanish) http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/19/actualidad/1476900255_158077.html

External links[]

Berlin Literature Festival Bio
The right to self destruction. Translation of El derecho a destruirse published in El País Semanal on 4-Dec-2005.
Saying the right thing. Translation of La corrección de la incorrección published in EL PAIS SEMANAL - 29-01-2006.

show v t Recipients of the Mondello Prize
Single Prize for Literature: (1975) • Achille Campanile (1976) • Günter Grass (1977)
Special Jury Prize: (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • (1987) • (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • (1993) • , , , , (1995) • , , , (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • (2003) • (2006) • (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • (2010)
First narrative work: (1978) • Fausta Garavini (1979)
First poetic work: (1978) • (1979)
Prize for foreign literature: Milan Kundera (1978) • N. Scott Momaday (1979) • Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) • Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)
Prize for foreign poetry: (1978) • Joseph Brodsky (1979) • Juan Gelman (1980) • Gyula Illyés (1981)
First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • , Stefano Simoncelli, , Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • , (1985) • , (1986) • , (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • (1991) • , Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, (1993) • (1994) • (1995) • , Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • (1997) • (1998) • (1999) • (2000) • (2001) • , (2003) • (2004) • (2005) • (2006) • (2007) • (2008) • (2009) • (2010)
Foreign author: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)
Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • , (1995) • (1996) • , Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • , Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, , Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. , sec. , ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. , sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. , ter. (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. , sec. , ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. , sec. , ter. (2010) • pr. , sec. , ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. , ter. (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. (2013) • pr. , sec. , ter. (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. , ter. (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. , ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. , ter. (2017)
"Five Continents" Award: Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992) • Kenzaburō Ōe (1993) • Stephen Spender (1994) • Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996) • Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award: Dacia Maraini (1999), Premio Palermo ponte per il Mediterraneo Alberto Arbasino (2000)
"Ignazio Buttitta" Award: (2003) • (2005) • (2006) • (2007)
Supermondello Tiziano Scarpa (2009) • Michela Murgia (2010) • (2011) • (2012) • Valerio Magrelli (2013) • (2014) • (2015) • Romana Petri (2016) • Stefano Massini (2017)
Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • (2010) • (2011)
Poetry prize: (2010)
Translation Award: (2010)
Identity and dialectal literatures award: e Marco Paolini (2010)
Essays Prize: (2010)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011)
Mondello Youths Award: Claudia Durastanti (2011) • Edoardo Albinati (2012) • (2017)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Prize for Literary Criticism: (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • (2014) • (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • (2017)
Award for best motivation: (2012)
Special award for travel literature: (2013)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014)

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