Javier Cercas

Who is Javier Cercas?

Javier Cercas is a writer and, since 1989, a Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, 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, Jesus Ferrero - who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.

He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain.