Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas (born 1962, Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain) is a writer and, since 1989, a Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. 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.

Bibliography

• El móvil (1987).
• La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez (1994)
• El inquilino (The tenant & the motive) (1989, English translation - 2005).
• El vientre de la ballena (1997).
• Una buena temporada (1998).
• Relatos reales (2000).
• Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis) (2001, English translation - 2004). Story of an incident during the Spanish Civil War.
• La velocidad de la luz (The Speed of Light) (2005, English translation - 2006). Story of a friendship with a Vietnam War veteran.
• Anatomía de un instante (The Anatomy of a Moment) (2009, English translation - 2011). Non-fiction work about the failed coup d'état in Spain on 23 February 1981 (called "23-F").

External links

• Berlin Literature Festival Bio (2009)
• 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.