“One of the greatest works of literature in the Spanish language of our time.” Alberto Manguel (on Anatomía de un instante).“Cercas’s writing has echoes of Scott Fitzgerald, in the intense, shining clarity of its emotion, and of Faulkner.” The Independent.“Cercas belongs to the line of great writers.” Livres Hebdo.Since then Cercas occupies a lead role in Spanish narrative and takes an active part in cultural and political debates in the country with his articles in the press. Cercas’s work is a daring exploration of the lines that separate reality and fiction, the author himself describing his work as “real stories”, always with a view to scrutinising the present and its roots in the past. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won numerous national and international awards, such as the 2016 European Book Award for his work El impostor, the André Malraux 2018 Award for El monarca de las sombras and the 2019 Planet Prize for Terra Alta. In 2001 he published Soldados de Salamina, which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba. Javier Cercas holds a PhD in Spanish Studies and worked as a professor of Spanish literature first at the University of Illinois and later at the University of Girona.
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