Javier Cercas

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Rooted in the town of Ibahernando, Cáceres, he pursued literary studies that led to a professorship in Spanish literature at the University of Girona and teaching stints at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Oxford’s St Anne’s College as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor. His novels, often centered on Spain’s civil-war memory, have earned international recognition: the translation of…