by Javier Marías · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478441204
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«Vidas escritas» is Javier Marías's book of biographical portraits of writers, published by Siruela in paperback (174 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together twenty brief biographies of deceased foreign writers, treated as fictional characters with irony and affection. Among those portrayed are Faulkner, Conrad, Dinesen, Joyce, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Turgenev, Mann, Lampedusa, Rilke, Nabokov and Sterne.
It was originally published in 1992 and belongs to the «Libros del tiempo» collection of Ediciones Siruela, number 43. Includes a bibliography at the end.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
