Javier Marías

Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh)

Ed. by Stuart Green, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.02: Spanish Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary, 1700-present.
Vol. editors: Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), Isabel Berzal Ayuso (Universidad de Alcala de Henares), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

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Born 20 Sep 1951
Died 11 Sep 2022
Activity 1968-2022

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Born in Spain
Active in Spain

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Javier Marías is a major European writer and the author of eleven novels (including

Tu rostro mañana

[

Your Face Tomorrow

], published in three volumes between 2002 and 2007), which have been translated into forty-one languages and published in fifty-one countries, two collections of short stories, and nineteen collections of essays, articles, newspaper columns and biographical portraits.

Born in Madrid in 1951, he is the fourth of five sons of Dolores Franco and Julián Marías. (The firstborn, Julianín, died at the age of three and a half in 1949 and is movingly evoked by Javier Marías in Negra espalda del tiempo (1998) [Dark Back of Time], as well as by the father in his memoirs.) His mother and father, who met at university in the turbulent Spain of the 1930s during the Second

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Citation: Grohmann, Alexis. "Javier Marías". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 October 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12897, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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