Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona. Anne McLean is the translator of works by Julio Cort?zar, Hector Abad, Ignacio Mart?nez de Pis?n, Enrique Vila-Matas and Juan Gabriel V?squez among others. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: in 24 for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas and in 29 for The Armies by Evelio Rosero. She lives in Toronto.