He succumbed to complications from pneumonia. \/ Javier Mar\u00edas died<\/p>\n
The successful Spanish author Javier Mar\u00edas died in Madrid shortly before his 71st birthday. He was one of the best-known and most successful contemporary Spanish writers. In Germany, too, he had millions of readers.<\/p>\n
According to his publisher, Marias succumbed to complications from pneumonia. He had been suffering from the disease for several weeks, which had gotten worse in the past few hours. According to information from the newspaper “El Mundo”, the pneumonia was the result of a corona infection.<\/p>\n
Mar\u00edas is considered one of the great authors of contemporary Spanish literature. His greatest successes include “My heart so white” (1993), “Tomorrow in the battle think of me” (1994) and “All souls” (1989). Last year he published his last novel “Tom\u00e1s Nevinson”.<\/p>\n
According to his publisher Alfaguara, Mar\u00edas’ 16 novels have been translated into 46 languages \u200b\u200band sold more than nine million copies. The author was one of the “eternal Nobel Prize candidates”. His work includes not only novels, essays, columns and short stories, but also many translations from English.<\/p>\n
The novelist and columnist has died in Madrid, as confirmed by family sources. He was 70 years old. In March 2021 he published his 16th novel, ‘Tom\u00e1s Nevinson’<\/p>\n
The writer Javier Mar\u00edas, author of novels such as White Heart, All Souls, Your Face Tomorrow or Tom\u00e1s Nevinson, has died this Sunday in Madrid due to pneumonia, as confirmed by family sources. He was 70 years old.<\/p>\n
A native of Madrid from the Chamber\u00ed neighbourhood, a language academic and contributor to EL PA\u00cdS, Mar\u00edas made his debut as a writer in 1971, at the age of 19. He debuted with Los dominios del lobo, a novel written \u201cin the mornings\u201d \u2014he considered himself an \u201cevening\u201d writer\u2014 in the Parisian apartment of his uncle, the filmmaker Jes\u00fas Franco, for whom he had translated scripts about Dracula. The book is dedicated to his teacher Juan Benet \u2014who mediated with the Edhasa publishing house for it to be published\u2014 and to his friend Vicente Molina Foix, who \u201cgiven\u201d him the title.<\/p>\n
For years he combined writing with teaching at the Complutense University and with translation. In 1979 Laurence Sterne’s version of him as Tristram Shandy received the National Award. In 2012 he again obtained the same distinction, this time in the narrative category, for Los Enamoramientos, but, as he had announced, he rejected it. That decision, which was limited to the honors awarded by the Spanish State, also affected the Cervantes Prize (which he did not obtain) but not the Nobel Prize (for which he was a candidate). In fact, he already had some of the most important awards on the international scene: from the R\u00f3mulo Gallegos to the European Literature award passing through the Nelly Sachs.<\/p>\n