Spanish · 1951–2022
Javier Marías wrote long, meditative novels that examine how we know other people and whether we ever can. "A Heart So White" won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; "Berta Isla" was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The Spanish author—who died in 2022—created prose of philosophical depth and hypnotic rhythm. His sentences unspool across pages, accumulating meaning through digression and qualification.