Javier Marías

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. Translated into thirty-four languages, his books have sold five and a half million copies worldwide. A Heart So White (Harvill/New Directions) was awarded the Dublin IMPAC Award as the best novel published in English in 1996. His most recent novel is Dance and Dream (Chatto & Windus/New Directions), the second in a trilogy, which was voted Best Book of 2007 by the Times Literary Supplement. Marías’s op-ed pieces appear in the New York Times and he is a regular contributor to The Believer and The Threepenny Review. He lives in Madrid.