Marías, also a translator and columnist, was described as ‘one of Spain’s greatest contemporary writers’
The Spanish novelist Javier Marías, author of All Souls, A Heart so White, and the epic, three-part Your Face Tomorrow – and a writer regularly touted as a candidate for the Nobel prize for literature – has died at home in Madrid at the age of 70.
Marías, who had been ill with pneumonia for the past month, died on Sunday, according to his publisher, Alfaguara.