The writer Javier Cercas has been chosen this Thursday to occupy the R chair of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) that he left vacant Javier Mariaswho died on September 11, 2022. His candidacy was presented by academics Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, Clara Sánchez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Born on April 6, 1962 in the Extremaduran town of Ibahernando, in the province of Cáceres, although he has lived in Girona since he was a child, Javier Cercas is National Fiction Award for ‘Anatomy of an instant’ and Planet Award by ‘Terra Alta’. His first work was the book of stories ‘The Mobile’ (1987) and the good reception by critics that that first work had continued with his novels ‘The Tenant’ (1989), ‘The Whale’s Belly’ (1997 ) and ‘Soldiers of Salamina’ (2001), the latter becoming one of the greatest successes of Spanish literature that was made into a film by David Trueba in 2003.
The success of ‘Soldiers of Salamis’ promoted its international projection and his works have been translated into more than thirty languages in more than twenty countries. With that ability to play with reality and fiction he later wrote ‘Anatomy of an Instant’ (2009), ‘The Laws of the Border’ (2012), ‘The Impostor’ (2014) and ‘The Monarch of Shadows’ ( 2017), which denote Cercas’ interest in the Spanish Civil War and the Transition.
As an essayist he is the author of a volume of criticism titled ‘The literary work of Gonzalo Suárez’ (1993). He is also a regular contributor to the newspaper ‘El País’., and has compiled his articles in ‘A Good Season’ (1998), ‘The Truth of Agamemnon’ (2006) and his chronicles in ‘True Stories’ (2000). As a translator, he has translated into Spanish Catalan authors such as Francesc Trabal, Quim Monzó, Sergi Pàmies, Ponç Puigdevall, as well as his admired HG Wells.
The writer presented himself as the only candidate to occupy the vacancy of chair R that Javier Marías left behind. Despite having been endorsed by authors of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa, as mentioned a few lines above, his arrival had to be voted on this Thursday. A vote in which he has achieved the absolute majority necessary to be a member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in that position.
Source: Lasexta
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