JM en The Guardian
Looking for Luisa
At 17, Javier Marías ran away to Paris, where he wrote his first novel. A second was published while he was still at university. His parallel career as a translator has informed his fiction and, he says, taught him how to write. Regarded as one of Spain's greatest novelists, he is also - thanks to one of his books - the unlikely king of a small Caribbean island
At 17, Javier Marías ran away to Paris, where he wrote his first novel. A second was published while he was still at university. His parallel career as a translator has informed his fiction and, he says, taught him how to write. Regarded as one of Spain's greatest novelists, he is also - thanks to one of his books - the unlikely king of a small Caribbean island
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