Javier Marías, (born September 20, 1951), is a Spanish novelist, translator and columnist. He is also one of the king of the uninhabited Caribbean microstate of Redonda. September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ... A Columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... A microstate is a very small internationally recognized sovereign state. ... Redonda is an uninhabited island dependency of Antigua and Barbuda. ...

Marías was born in Madrid, his father was a teacher who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing the government of Francisco Franco. He wrote his first novel The Dominions of the Wolf at the age of 17 after running away to Paris. After attending the Complutense University of Madrid Marías turned his attention to translating English novels into Spanish. Some of the authors whom he translated include John Updike, Thomas Hardy, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1979 he won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Coat of arms The Plaza de España square Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W. Population of the city of Madrid proper was 3,093,000 (Madrilenes, madrileños) as of 2003 estimates. ... Francisco Franco, late in life Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 - November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Complutense University of Madrid, in Spanish Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is an important Spanish university, located in Madrid. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... John Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American novelist and short story author born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. ... This article is about the British novelist. ... This page is about the novelist. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Laurence Sterne Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768) was an English novelist and clergyman. ... The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. ...

After returning to original composition Marías won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his 1992 novel A Heart So White. His sympathetic portrayal of John Gawsworth, the third King of Redonda, so touched the "reigning" king Jon Wynne-Tyson that he abdicated and left the throne to Marías in 1997. Since taking the throne Marías has given honourary titles to such people as Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola, and A. S. Byatt. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Gawsworth (June 29, 1912 - September 23, 1970), a pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. ... Redonda is a Caribbean microstate founded in 1865. ... Pedro Almodóvar (born September 24, 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American film director, screenwriter, vintner, and hotelier. ... Antonia Susan Byatt (born August 24, 1936, Sheffield, England) has been hailed by some as one of the greatest postmodern novelists in Britain. ...

Bibliography

• Los Dominios del Lobo (1971)
• Travesia del Horizonte (1972)
• El Monarca del Tiempo (1978)
• El Siglo (1982)
• The Man of Feeling (1986)
• All Souls (1989)
• A Heart So White (1992)
• Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me (1994)
• When I Was Mortal (1996)
• Dark Back of Time (1998)
• Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear (2005)