Full Name Javier Cercas Name Javier Cercas Nationality Spain Role Writer | Alma mater University of Girona Movies Soldiers Of Salamina Occupation professor, writer | |
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Born 1962 Ibahernando, Spain Education Autonomous University of Barcelona Nominations International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Books Soldiers of Salamis, The Anatomy of a Moment, Outlaws, La velocidad de la luz, El vientre de la ballena Similar People David Trueba, Ariadna Gil, Joan Dalmau, Maria Botto, Javier Aguirresarobe | ||
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Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain.
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He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, 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, and Jesus Ferrero, who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.
Soldiers of Salamis (translated by Anne McLean) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004, and McLean's translations of his novels The Speed of Light and Outlaws were shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and 2016 respectively.