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His cerebral novels sold in their millions across Europe, while his Oxford satire, All Souls, caused an academic scandal in Britain

One of Spain’s greatest modern novelists whose constant themes were secrets and betrayal

Writer and academic. Author of other realities, but also translator of other peoples stories. Javier Marías hovered between both occupations throughout his life, and it was something he was proud to claim, but why was he denied the Nobel Prize for Literature?

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

The author of 15 novels, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize, and the most recent King of Redonda, the Spanish writer was an acute observer of the games we all play

MADRID (AP) — Javier Marías, Spain’s most prestigious novelist of the past half century, has died, his publisher said Sunday. He was 70. Spanish news agency EFE reported that Marías passed away in a hospital after not recovering from a lung infection.

Spanish writer Javier Marias, whose work has been translated into more than 40 languages in nearly 60 countries, died Sunday in Madrid at the age of 70 after suffering from pneumonia, his publisher said.

The New Arab and others. This is how one story goes. It was the early 20th century, maybe 1915, amid Lebanon’s vicious famine. Ottoman authorities were enforcing safar barlik, mandatory conscription of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Kurdish men to fight for them during the Great War. They say these were some of the worst years for Bilad el-Sham, that Beirut and its surrounding mountains were like shriveled fruit, wrinkled and helpless. Locusts had destroyed everything—the olive trees, ...