![]() His debut is dedicated to his mentor Juan Benet, who negotiated with the Edhasa publishing house to get it into print, and his friend Vicente Molina Foix, who “gifted” him its title.įor many years, Marías combined writing and translating with lecturing at Madrid’s Complutense University. The writer Javier Marías, author of novels including A Heart So White, All Souls, Dark Back of Time and Tomás Nevinson, has died in Madrid at the age of 70, his family confirmed on Sunday.īorn in the Spanish capital, an academic of the Spanish language and a contributor to EL PAÍS, Marías made his debut as an author in 1971 at the age of 19 with Los dominios del lobo (or The wolf’s domains), a novel written “during the mornings” – he had always considered himself a “evening time” writer - in the Parisian apartment of his uncle, the filmmaker Jesús Franco, for whom he had translated scripts about Dracula. ![]()
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