Javier Marias, author and academic of Languages, has died at the age of 70 at the Quirón Clinic in Madrid, according to sources from his family and publisher. Novelis has been hospitalized for some time due to bilateral pneumonia which has been complicated in recent weeks to a pathetic result.

On August 15, the publisher Alfaguara reported that Marías had a lung disease. “In light of the concerns raised by the state of health of the author Javier Marías, we inform you that he suffers from a serious lung condition. in the process of recoverysaid the statement, in which the publisher wished the author a “speedy recovery”.

Although in the end the author, the indisputable figure of the letters, had not been able to overcome the severe respiratory condition he was suffering from. Javier Marias, who? occupy the ‘R’ seat of RAEhas been recognized with more than thirty national and international awards, although he has also always been a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Javier Marías is the author of fifteen novels, of which, sentimental man, all souls one of heart is white Last December he was elected an international member of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK’s charity for the promotion of literature, a list that includes, among others, writers David Grossman, Annie Ernaux, Amin Maalouf and Olga Tokarczuk. . latest book, Thomas Nevinson, published in March 2021.

In one of his last interviews, given to El País in May, the author assures that he looks for inspiration in “things that concern me as a citizen. “There are a lot of issues right now that I let go of completely. I write about what seems to me in particular serious, dangerous, unfair or stupid. Obviously, sometimes I’m wrong or I can really go against the grain”, believes a key figure in Spanish literature.