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Javier Marías

Written Lives

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An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature (The Boston Globe).In addition to his own busy career as one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected here are twenty pieces recounting great writers' lives, or, more precisely, snippets of writers' lives. Thomas Mann, Rilke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Turgenev, Djuna Barnes, Emily Bron… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Costa, Margaret Jull (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8112-1936-5
  • EAN: 9780811219365
  • Produktnummer: 34245888
  • Verlag: New Directions
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 24'015 KB

Über den Autor


Javier Marías is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid.

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