Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas (born 1962) 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.

He is one of a group of well-known Spanish novelists - which includes Julio Llamazares, Andrés Trapiello, Jesus Ferrero - who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.^[1]

He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain.

Bibliography

• El móvil (1987)
• El inquilino (The Tenant and the Motive) (1989, English translation, 2005)
• La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez (1994)
• 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 "23-F" coup d'état in Spain on 23 February 1981
• Las leyes de la frontera (2012)

References

External links

• Berlin Literature Festival Bio
• 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.