Javier Marías was a major European writer and the author of fourteen novels (including Tu rostro mañana [Your Face Tomorrow], published in three volumes between 2002 and 2007), a number of short-story collections, and numerous books of essays and feature writing. All of these works have been translated into a total of forty-six languages and published in fifty-nine countries thus far (January 2026). He was also the king of the literary Kingdom of Redonda (Reino de Redonda in Spanish) and founded a publishing house bearing that name, with which imprint he commissioned translations and published forty-three titles (novels, short-story and poetry collections, travel writing, autobiographical works and essays, the last three of which were published posthumously) mostly by foreign authors, for which he had a particular predilection.
Born in Madrid in 1951, he was the...
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Citation: Grohmann, Alexis. "Javier Marías". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 October 2011; last revised 17 March 2026. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12897, accessed 16 April 2026.]
