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Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas en la Feria del Libro de Madrid 2009.jpg
Javier Cercas (2009)
Born Javier Cercas
1962
Ibahernando, Spain
Nationality Spain
Alma mater University of Girona
Occupation professor, writer

Javier Cercas (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain.

He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of El País and the Sunday supplement. He worked for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.

He is one of a group of well-known Spanish novelists, which includes Julio Llamazares, Andrés Trapiello, and Jesus Ferrero, who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.


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