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Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a Spanish 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 Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, United States. He is part of a group of well-known Spanish novelists who have published "historical memory" fiction, focusing on the Spanish Civil War and Francoist state, including Julio Llamazares, Andrés Trapiello, and Jesús Ferrero. Soldiers of Salamis (translated by Anne McLean) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004. McLean's translations of his novels The Speed of Light and Outlaws were also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, in 2008 and 2016 respectively. During the 2014–15 academic year, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at St Anne's College at Oxford, England. He was awarded the 2016 European Book Prize for The Impostor. Bibliography 1987, El móvil 1989, El inquilino (The Tenant and the Motive) (English translation, 2005) 1994, La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez 1997, El vientre de la ballena 1998, Una buena temporada 2000, Relatos reales 2001, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2004) 2005, La velocidad de la luz (The Speed of Light) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2006) 2009, Anatomía de un instante (The Anatomy of a Moment) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2011) 2012, Las leyes de la frontera (published as Outlaws) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2014) 2014, El Impostor (The Impostor) (English translation by Frank Wynne, 2017) 2017, El monarca de las sombras (Literatura Random House, Feb 2017) 2018, The Blind Spot (MacLeHose Press) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2018) 2019, Terra Alta (Even the Darkest Night) (English translation by Anne McLean, 2022) Notes References External links Berlin Literature Festival Bio Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine The right to self destruction. Translation of El derecho a destruirse published in El País Semanal on 4-Dec-2005. Saying the right thing. Translation of La corrección de la incorrección published in EL PAIS SEMANAL - 29-01-2006.. Discover the Javier Cercas Anne Mclean popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Javier Cercas Anne Mclean books.