:Javier Marías

Javier Marías Franco was born in Madrid on 20 September 1951.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cope.es/actualidad/cultura/noticias/javier-marias-sempiterno-candidato-espanol-nobel-literatura-20220911_2283161|website=Cadena COPE|date=11 September 2022|title=Javier Marías, el sempiterno candidato español al Nobel de Literatura}} His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco (the father of the protagonist of Your Face Tomorrow was given a similar biography{{Cite news |last=Lasdun |first=James |date=21 November 2009 |title=Your Face Tomorrow III by Javier Marías {{!}} Book review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/21/your-face-tomorrow-marias-review |access-date=13 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en}}). His mother was the writer {{ill|Dolores Franco Manera|es}}. Marías was the fourth of five sons.{{Cite news |last=Edemariam |first=Aida |author-link=Aida Edemariam|date=6 May 2005 |title=Profile: Javier Marías |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/may/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview34 |access-date=12 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en}} Two of his siblings were art historian {{ill|Fernando Marías Franco|es|lt=Fernando}} and film critic and economist {{ill|Miguel Marías Franco|es|lt=Miguel}}. He was the nephew and cousin of, respectively, filmmakers Jesús "Jess" Franco and Ricardo Franco.{{Cite web|date=11 September 2022|first=Ulises|last=Fuente|title=Muere el escritor Javier Marías, uno de los más importantes en lengua castellana|url=https://www.larazon.es/cultura/literatura/libros/20220911/maokjok7pncbtlfaxsfxxud22y.html|website=La Razón}} Marías spent parts of his childhood in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid. After having returned to Madrid, Marías studied philosophy and literary sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid from 1968 to 1973.{{Cite web |title=Javier Marías |url=https://literaturfestival.com/authors/javier-marias/ |access-date=12 September 2022 |website=internationales literaturfestival berlin |language=de-DE}} From the 1970s onwards, he was involved in translating English literary works into the Spanish language.{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=Gareth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a9mCJLAkgwEC&dq=Javier+Marias+and+Romulo+gallegos+prize&pg=PA2 |title=Javier Marías's Debt to Translation: Sterne, Browne, Nabokov |date=3 May 2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-965133-7 |pages=3 |language=en}} His first literary employment consisted of translating Dracula scripts for his maternal uncle, Jesús Franco.[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3a1179e-8371-11dc-b042-0000779fd2ac.html Hardworking King of Redonda].[http://www.ndpublishing.com/authors/marias.html New new Directions Publishing biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704055332/http://www.ndpublishing.com/authors/marias.html |date=4 July 2008 }}.

Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14.{{Cite magazine |last1=Smith |first1=Zadie |author-link=Zadie Smith |date=March 2011 |title=New Books: While the Women are Sleeping |magazine=Harper's |volume=322 |issue=1,930 |page=69 |url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/WhileTheWomenAreSleepingBook |access-date=9 May 2011 }} He ran away from home to write his first novel and went to live with his uncle in Paris. He began writing Los dominios del lobo (The Dominions of the Wolf), at the age of 17.{{Cite book |url=https://www.tiposinfames.com/libros/los-dominios-del-lobo/5197/ |title=LOS DOMINIOS DEL LOBO |date=9 October 2023 |language=en}} It was about an American family and according to him, it was written in the morning hours.{{Cite web |last=Marcos |first=Javier Rodríguez |date=11 September 2022 |title=Spanish literary great Javier Marías dies aged 70 |url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-09-11/spanish-literary-great-javier-marias-dies-aged-70.html |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=El País |language=en-us}} The novel is dedicated to the Spanish author Juan Benet, who managed to compel the publisher {{III|Edhasa|lt=Edhasa|es}} to print the book, and to Vicente Molina Foix, who provided him with the title. In later years he considered himself an "evening-time" writer. The novel Travesía del horizonte (Voyage Along the Horizon) was an adventure story about an expedition to Antarctica.{{Cite book |last=lecturalia.com |url=https://www.lecturalia.com/libro/934/travesia-del-horizonte |title=Travesía del horizonte – Javier Marías |date=14 October 2015 |language=es}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfVgEAAAQBAJ&dq=travesia+al+horizonte+and+segundo+libro&pg=PA87 |title=El pensamiento literario de Javier Marías |date=22 February 2022 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-48537-2 |pages=87 |language=es}}

His translations included work by Updike, Hardy, Conrad, Nabokov, Faulkner, James, Stevenson, and Browne.{{Cite web |title=Javier Marías traductor |url=http://www.javiermarias.es/JMtraductor/JMtraductor.html |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Javier Marias}}{{Cite web |date=12 September 2022 |title=Javier Marías, traductor |url=https://vasoscomunicantes.ace-traductores.org/2022/09/12/javier-marias-traductor/ |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Vasos Comunicantes {{!}} Revista de ACE Traductores |language=es}} In 1979, he won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Between 1983 and 1985, Marías lectured in Spanish literature and translation at the University of Oxford.{{cite web |title=A History of Spanish at Oxford |url=https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/100-years |access-date=12 September 2022 |website=University of Oxford |publisher=}}

In 1986, Marías published El hombre sentimental (The Man of Feeling), and in 1989 he published Todas las almas (All Souls),{{Cite web |date=11 September 2022 |title=La vida de Javier Marías a través de sus obras |url=https://www.elindependiente.com/tendencias/2022/09/11/la-vida-de-javier-marias-a-traves-de-sus-obras/ |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=El Independiente |language=es}} which was set at Oxford University. The Spanish film director Gracia Querejeta released El Último viaje de Robert Rylands (Robert Rylands' Last Journey), adapted from Todas las almas, in 1996.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FXIDB4AuAtQC&pg=PA83 |title=El cine de nuestros días (1994–1998) |trans-title=The Cinema of Our Days (1994–1998) |first=José María |last=Caparrós Lera |publisher=Ediciones Rialp |isbn=9788432132339 |page=83 |language=Spanish |year=1999 |access-date=19 July 2018 |via=Google Books}}

His 1992 novel Corazón tan blanco{{Cite web |date=9 March 2018 |title=Corazón tan blanco: Resumen y todo lo que se desconoce |url=https://resumiendolo.com/c-novela/corazon-tan-blanco/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=Resumimos Todos Los Libros Y Novelas que existen |language=es}} is centered on Juan, a translator for the United Nations (UN), and its English version A Heart So White was translated by Margaret Jull Costa.{{Cite web |last=Proctor |first=Minna |date=1 January 1998 |title=Javier Marías's A Heart So White |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/javier-maríass-a-heart-so-white/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=Bomb Magazine}} It was received well by the literary critics and won the Spanish Critics Award. Marías and Costa were joint winners of the 1997 International Dublin Literary Award.{{Cite news |last=Battersby |first=Eileen |date=15 May 1997 |title=Spaniard awarded £100,000 Dublin literary prize |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/spaniard-awarded-100-000-dublin-literary-prize-1.72289 |access-date=11 September 2022 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}} In his 1994 novel, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, the protagonist is a ghostwriter.{{cite news|last=Piqueras|first=José A.|author-link=José Antonio Piqueras|title=El juego de la ventriloquía política|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/01/02/cvalenciana/978466684_850215.html|publisher=El País|language=es|date=1 January 2001|access-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203041623/https://elpais.com/diario/2001/01/02/cvalenciana/978466684_850215.html|archive-date=3 December 2015|quote=En la memorable novela Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, Javier Marías crea un personaje, protagonista de la trama, que convierte en escritor y ejerce de negro literario}}

The protagonists of the novels written since 1986 are all interpreters or translators of one kind or another, based on his own experience as a translator and teacher of translation at Oxford University. Of these protagonists, Marías wrote, "They are people who are renouncing their own voices."

In 2002 Marías published Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza (Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear), the first part of a trilogy which was his most ambitious literary project. The first volume is dominated by a translator, an elderly don based on an actual professor emeritus of Spanish studies at Oxford University, Sir Peter Russell. The second volume, Tu rostro mañana 2. Baile y sueño (Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream), was published in 2004. In 2007, Marías completed the final installment, Tu rostro mañana 3. Veneno y sombra y adiós (Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell).{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6607067/Your-Face-Tomorrow-3-Poison-Shadow-and-Farewell-by-Javier-Marias-review.html|title=Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías: review|publisher=telegraph.co.uk|first=Tim|last=Martin|date=23 November 2009}} In 2009, the trilogy was published as one single volume.

It was followed by the novel Los enamoramientos (The Infatuations) in 2011, a story about a woman drawn into a murder mystery. The novel won the state-run National novel prize, but Marías rejected the award saying he did not want to be indebted to a government of any kind.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/books/javier-marias-dead.amp.html |title=Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 |author=Risen, Clay |date=12 September 2022 |newspaper=The New York Times }}

He also was a regular contributor to El País, whose editor-in-chief Pepa Bueno lamented his death and called it a sad day for Spanish literature.{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Sam |date=11 September 2022 |title=Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies at home in Madrid aged 70 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/11/spanish-novelist-javier-marias-dies-at-home-in-madrid-aged-70 |access-date=12 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en}} In 2005–2006, an English version of his column, "La Zona Fantasma", appeared in the monthly magazine The Believer.{{Cite web |title=Javier Marías |url=https://www.thebeliever.net/contributor/javier-marias/ |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Believer Magazine |language=en-US}}

{{see also|Kingdom of Redonda}}

After having been awarded the title, King of Redonda, he was also known as Xavier I.{{Cite web |date=14 November 2020 |title=Javier Marías, veinte años como rey de Redonda |url=https://www.zendalibros.com/javier-marias-veinte-anos-como-rey-de-redonda/ |access-date=12 September 2022 |website=Zenda |language=es}} and, from 2000 onwards, Marías operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda.Wood, Gareth (2012), pp. 1–2 Its first book of the publishing house was La mujer de Huguenin by the first King of Redondo and author M. P. Shiel. Marías's novel, Todas las almas (All Souls), included a portrayal of the poet John Gawsworth, who was also the third King of Redonda. Although the fate of this monarchy after the death of Gawsworth is contested, the portrayal by Marías so affected the "reigning" king, Jon Wynne-Tyson, that he abdicated and left the throne to Marías in 1997. This course of events was chronicled in his "false novel," Negra espalda del tiempo (Dark Back of Time). The book was inspired by the reception of Todas las almas by many people who, falsely according to Marías, believed they were the source of the characters in Todas las almas.{{cite web|url=http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mariasj/negraedt.htm|title=Dark Back of Time}} at Complete Review. After "taking the throne" of Redonda, Marías began a publishing imprint named Reino de Redonda ("Kingdom of Redonda").{{cite web|url=https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mariasj/woodgj.htm|title=Javier Marías's Debt to Translation|first=Gareth J.|last=Wood|work=Complete Review|year=2012}}

Marías conferred many titles during his reign upon people he liked, including upon Pedro Almodóvar (Duke of Trémula),{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/may/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview34|title=Looking for Luisa|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Aida|last=Edemariam|date=7 May 2005}} António Lobo Antunes (Duke of Cocodrilos), John Ashbery (Duke of Convexo), Pierre Bourdieu (Duke of Desarraigo), William Boyd (Duke of Brazzaville), Michel Braudeau (Duke of Miranda),{{fact|date=November 2022}} A. S. Byatt (Duchess of Morpho Eugenia), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Duke of Tigres),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Pietro Citati (Duke of Remonstranza),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Francis Ford Coppola (Duke of Megalópolis), Agustín Díaz Yanes (Duke of Michelín),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Roger Dobson (Duke of Bridaespuela),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Frank Gehry (Duke of Nervión),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Francis Haskell (Duke of Sommariva),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Eduardo Mendoza (Duke of Isla Larga),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Ian Michael (Duke of Bernal),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Orhan Pamuk (Duke of Colores),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Duke of Corso),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Francisco Rico (Duke of Parezzo),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Sir Peter Russell (Duke of Plazatoro),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Fernando Savater (Duke of Caronte),{{fact|date=November 2022}} W. G. Sebald (Duke of Vértigo),{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/12/javier-marias-modern-literatures-great-philosopher-of-everyday-absurdity|title=Javier Marías: modern literature's great philosopher of everyday absurdity|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Alberto|last=Manguel|date=12 September 2022|quote=This allowed Marías to confer titles to many of his literary friends: WG Sebald was made Duke of Vertigo and Francis Ford Coppola the Duke of Megalópolis.}} Jonathan Coe (Duke of Prunes),{{fact|date=November 2022}} Luis Antonio de Villena (Duke of Malmundo),{{fact|date=November 2022}} and Juan Villoro (Duke of Nochevieja).{{fact|date=November 2022}}

Marías created a literary prize, the Premio Reino de Redonda to be judged by the dukes and duchesses. The jury was of extraordinary prominence, comprising the dukes mentioned below and other figures such as Francis Ford Coppola.Wood, Gareth (2012), p. 36. In addition to prize money, the winners, listed below, received a duchy:

• 2001 – J. M. Coetzee (Duke of Deshonra){{Cite news |last=Fernández-Santos |first=Elsa |date=24 April 2001 |title=El novelista surafricano J. M. Coetzee logra el I Premio Reino de Redonda |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/04/25/cultura/988149605_850215.html |access-date=12 September 2022 |issn=1134-6582}}
• 2002 – John H. Elliott (Duke of Simancas)
• 2003 – Claudio Magris (Duke of Segunda Mano)
• 2004 – Éric Rohmer (Duke of Olalla)
• 2005 – Alice Munro{{Cite web |date=28 January 2019 |title=20 años de Reino de Redonda, el sello de Javier Marías |url=https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/laesferadepapel/2019/01/28/5c4d096a21efa07c558b45c0.html |access-date=12 September 2022 |work= El Mundo |language=es}} (Duchess of Ontario)
• 2006 – Ray Bradbury (Duke of Diente de León){{Cite news |date=24 April 2006 |title=Ray Bradbury obtiene el VI Premio Reino de Redonda |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2006/04/25/cultura/1145916005_850215.html |access-date=12 September 2022 |issn=1134-6582}}
• 2007 – George Steiner (Duke of Girona)[http://www.javiermarias.es/2007/05/fallo-del-vii-premio-reino-de-redonda.html "Fallo del VII Premio Reino de Redonda"], 3 May 2007.
• 2008 – Umberto Eco (Duke of la Isla del Día de Antes) {{Cite web |date=11 April 2008 |title=Umberto Eco reconocido con el Premio Reino de Redonda por el conjunto de su obra |url=https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/cultura/2008/04/11/umberto-eco-reconocido-premio-reino-redonda-conjunto-obra/00031207926398822708973.htm |access-date=12 September 2022 |website=La Voz de Galicia |language=es}}
• 2009 – Marc Fumaroli (Duke of Houyhnhnms){{Cite news |date=27 April 2009 |title=Marc Fumaroli gana el premio Reino de Redonda |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2009/04/27/actualidad/1240783204_850215.html |access-date=12 September 2022 |issn=1134-6582}}[http://www.javiermarias.es/REDONDIANA/elespejodelmar.html "El Espejo del Mar – Recuerdos e impresiones"].
• 2010 – Milan Kundera
• 2011 – Ian McEwan (Duke of the black dogs){{Cite news |date=26 May 2011 |title=Ian McEwan gana el premio Reino de Redonda |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2011/05/26/actualidad/1306360809_850215.html |access-date=12 September 2022 |issn=1134-6582}}

Marías died of pneumonia caused by Covid-19 in Madrid on 11 September 2022, at the age of 70.{{cite news | url=https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3192159/spanish-author-javier-marias-dies-aged-70-after-bout-pneumonia | title=Spanish author Javier Marias dies aged 70 after bout of pneumonia | date=12 September 2022 }}{{cite news |last1=Noiville |first1=Florence |title=Award-winning Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies aged 70 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2022/09/12/award-winning-spanish-novelist-javier-mar-as-dies-aged-70_5996669_15.html |access-date=13 September 2022 |newspaper=Le Monde |date=12 September 2022 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Risen |first1=Clay |title=Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/books/javier-marias-dead.html |access-date=13 September 2022 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 September 2022}}{{cite news | url=https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3192159/spanish-author-javier-marias-dies-aged-70-after-bout-pneumonia | title=Spanish author Javier Marias dies aged 70 after bout of pneumonia 'caused by Covid-19' |newspaper=South China Morning Post |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=12 September 2022 }} The Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza remembered him as the best writer in Spain at the time of his death, and one who wrote female characters the best.{{Cite web |last=Mendoza |first=Eduardo |author-link=Eduardo Mendoza Garriga |date=11 September 2022 |title=Javier Marías, un triste recuerdo |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-09-11/javier-marias-un-triste-recuerdo.html |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=El País |language=es}}

• 1979: {{Ill|Fray Luis de León Translation Award|lt=|es|Premio de traducción Fray Luis de León}} (Germanic languages) for Tristram Shandy{{Cite news |date=29 December 1979 |title=Premios Fray Luis de León de traducción |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1979/12/30/cultura/315356403_850215.html |access-date=13 September 2022 |issn=1134-6582}}
• 1986: Premio Herralde for El hombre sentimental
• 1989: {{Ill|Barcelona City Award|ca|Premi Ciutat de Barcelona}} (Spanish literature, narrative) for Todas las almas{{Cite web |title=Literatura en Llengua Castellana – Premis ciutat de Barcelona|url=https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/premisciutatbcn/edicions/1989-2/literatura-en-llengua-castellana/ |access-date=13 September 2022 |language=ca}}
• 1992: Premio de la Crítica Española{{Cite news |last=Bartels |first=Gerrit |date=11 September 2022 |title=Autor von "Mein Herz so weiß": Spanischer Schriftsteller Javier Marías gestorben |language=de-DE |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/autor-von-mein-herz-so-weiss-spanischer-schriftsteller-javier-marias-gestorben-8632588.html |access-date=13 September 2022 |issn=1865-2263}}
• 1995: Romulo Gallegos Prize for Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me)
• 1995: Fastenrath Award (Real Academia Española) for Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí{{Cite web |title=What do Fastenrath Award and Javier Marías have in common? |url=https://hyperleap.com/topic/Fastenrath_Award/Javier_Mar%25C3%25ADas |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=hyperleapsite |language=en}}
• 1996: Prix Femina étranger for Demain dans la bataille pense à moi (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí){{Cite web |last=Coppermann |first=Annie |date=5 November 1996 |title=Premier round des prix d'automne |url=https://www.lesechos.fr/1996/11/premier-round-des-prix-dautomne-844037 |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Les Échos |language=fr}}
• 1997: Nelly Sachs Prize
• 1997: International Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So White{{cite web|url=http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/previous-winners/ |title=Previous Winners |work=IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |author=IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |date=12 May 2015 |access-date=12 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122750/http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/previous-winners/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}
• 2000: Grinzane Cavour Prize
• 2008: Marías was elected to Seat R of the Real Academia Española on 29 June 2006. He took up his seat on 27 April 2008.{{cite news |title=Javier Marías |url=http://www.rae.es/academicos/javier-marias |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025140205/http://www.rae.es/academicos/javier-marias |archive-date=25 October 2015 |newspaper=Real Academia Española |language=es}} At his investiture he agreed with Robert Louis Stevenson that the work of novelists is "pretty childish," but also argued that it is impossible to narrate real events, and that "you can only fully tell stories about what has never happened, the invented and imagined."[http://www.surinenglish.com/noticias.php?Noticia=12649 Javier Marias joins Spanish Royal Academy] {{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}.
• 2010: America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing{{cite web |url=https://www.greeninteger.com/america.cfm |title=Green Integer Books }}
• 2011: International Nonino Prize in Italy{{Cite news |last=Marcos |first=Javier Rodríguez |date=15 January 2011 |title=Javier Marías gana en Italia el Premio Nonino |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2011/01/15/cultura/1295046005_850215.html |access-date=13 September 2022 |issn=1134-6582}}
• 2011: Austrian State Prize for European Literature{{cn|date=September 2022}}
• 2013: Prix Formentor{{cite news |author=Winston Manrique Sabogal |date=23 April 2013 |title=El Formentor rinde homenaje a la literatura de Javier Marías |url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/04/21/actualidad/1366557094_359820.html |access-date=23 April 2013 |work=El Pais |language=es}}
• 2013: National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) shortlist for The Infatuations{{cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014055/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 January 2014 |title=Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |date=14 January 2014 |access-date=14 January 2014}}
• 2017: LIBAR 2017 Award for the most outstanding Hispano-American author.{{Cite web |title=Javier Marías, LIBER 2017 Award for the most outstanding Hispano-American author |url=https://www.ifema.es/en/liber/news/javier-marias--liber-2017-award-for-the-most-outstanding-hispan |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=www.ifema.es |language=en}}
• 2021: Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/inaugural-rsl-international-writers-announced/|title=Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced|website=Royal Society of Literature|date= 30 November 2021|access-date=3 December 2023}}

{{main|Javier Marías bibliography}}

All English translations by Margaret Jull Costa unless otherwise indicated.

• Los dominios del lobo (1971){{Cite book |last=Marías |first=Javier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIQPH5HlVnQC |title=Los dominios del lobo |date=6 April 2011 |publisher=Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España |isbn=978-84-204-9947-5 |language=es}}
• Travesía del horizonte (1973). Voyage Along the Horizon, translated by Kristina Cordero (McSweeney's, 2006){{Cite web |title=Voyage Along the Horizon |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/58414-travesia-del-horizonte |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• El monarca del tiempo (1978){{Cite book |title=El monarca del tiempo (Book, 1978) [WorldCat.org] |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088080717 |access-date=11 September 2022 |via=www.worldcat.org| oclc=1088080717 }}
• El siglo (1983){{Cite book |last=Marías |first=Javier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BoszAAAAMAAJ |title=El siglo |date=1983 |publisher=Seix Barral |isbn=978-84-322-4509-1 |language=es}}
• El hombre sentimental (1986). The Man of Feeling (U.S.: New Directions/UK: The Harvill Press, 2003){{Cite book |last=lecturalia.com |url=https://www.lecturalia.com/libro/932/el-hombre-sentimental |title=El hombre sentimental – Javier Marías |date=30 June 2012 |language=es}}
• Todas las almas (1989). All Souls (The Harvill Press, 1992; New Directions, 2000){{Cite book |last=Marías |first=Javier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygNsJLhm3roC&dq=Todas+las+almas+(1989).+All+Souls+(The+Harvill+Press,+1992;+New+Directions,+2000)&pg=PP8 |title=All Souls |date=2000 |publisher=New Directions Publishing |isbn=978-0-8112-1453-7 |language=en}}
• Corazón tan blanco (1992). A Heart So White (The Harvill Press, 1995; New Directions, 2002){{Cite book |title=A Heart So White |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/782039-coraz-n-tan-blanco |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=www.goodreads.com|isbn=978-0-8112-1505-3 }}
• Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (1994). Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (The Harvill Press, 1996; New Directions, 2001){{Cite book |last=Marías |first=Javier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SA80ddG9A4C&dq=Ma%C3%B1ana+en+la+batalla+piensa+en+m%C3%AD+%281994%29.+Tomorrow+in+the+Battle+Think+on+Me+%28The+Harvill+Press%2C+1996%3B+New+Directions%2C+2001%29&pg=PP6 |title=Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me |date=2001 |publisher=New Directions Publishing |isbn=978-0-8112-1482-7 |language=en}}
• Negra espalda del tiempo (1998). Dark Back of Time, translated by Esther Allen (New Directions, 2001; Chatto & Windus, 2003){{Cite web |title=Dark Back of Time - Javier Marías |url=https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mariasj/negraedt.htm |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=www.complete-review.com}}
• Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza (2002). Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2005){{Cite web |title=Fever and Spear (Your Face Tomorrow, #1) |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/516776-fiebre-y-lanza |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• Tu rostro mañana 2. Baile y sueño (2004). Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2006){{Cite web |date=1 May 2008 |title=Your Face Tomorrow Vol. 2: Dance & Dream |url=https://www.ndbooks.com/book/your-face-tomorrow-vol.-2-dance-dream/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=New Directions Publishing |language=en}}
• Tu rostro mañana 3. Veneno y sombra y adiós (2007). Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2009)
• Los enamoramientos (2011). The Infatuations (U.S.: Knopf/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2013){{Cite web |title=Marías: The Infatuations {{!}} The Modern Novel |url=https://www.themodernnovel.org/europe/w-europe/spain/marias/enamoramientos/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=www.themodernnovel.org}} {{cite book |author1=Marías, Javier |author1link=Javier Marías |author2=Jull Costa, Margaret |author2link=Margaret Jull Costa |title=The Infatuations |publisher=Knopf |year=2013 |isbn=978-0307960726 }}
• Así empieza lo malo (2014). Thus Bad Begins (U.S.: Knopf/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2016){{Cite news |date=18 October 2018 |title=Berta Isla by Javier Marías review – secret life of a spy |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/berta-isla-by-javier-marias-review |access-date=11 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en}}
• Berta Isla (2017). Berta Isla (US: Knopf/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2018){{Cite news |date=18 October 2018 |title=Berta Isla by Javier Marías review – secret life of a spy |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/berta-isla-by-javier-marias-review |first=Marcel |last=Theroux|access-date=11 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en}}
• Tomás Nevinson (2021){{Cite web |title=Edizioni Ca' Foscari |url=https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2021/116/javier-marias-tomas-nevinson/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=edizionicafoscari.unive.it |language=en-US}}

• Mientras ellas duermen (1990). While the Women Are Sleeping (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2010){{Cite web |title=While the Women are Sleeping – Javier Marías |url=https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mariasj/whilewomen.htm |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=www.complete-review.com}}
• Cuando fui mortal (1996). When I Was Mortal (The Harvill Press, 1999; New Directions, 2000){{Cite web |date=1 September 2002 |title=When I Was Mortal |url=https://www.ndbooks.com/book/when-i-was-mortal/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=New Directions Publishing |language=en}}
• Mala índole (1996). Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, translated by Esther Allen (New Directions, 2010){{Cite book |title=Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/8311094-mala-ndole-cuentos-aceptados-y-aceptables |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=www.goodreads.com|isbn=978-0-8112-1858-0 |oclc=31719446 }}

• Between Eternities & Other Writings (U.S.: Penguin/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2017). Later compiled in Spanish as Entre Eternidades. Y otros escritos (2018){{Cite web |title=Between Eternities by Javier Marías: 9781101972113 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538112/between-eternities-by-javier-marias/ |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}

• Vidas escritas (1992). Written Lives (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Canongate, 2006). Multiple short literary biographies.{{Cite news |date=13 May 2016 |title=Written Lives by Javier Marías review – 26 literary figures examined |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/13/written-lives-javier-marias-review-26-literary-figures-examined |first=PD|last= Smith|access-date=11 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en}}
• Venice, an interior (2016) (London: Penguin Books, 2016)[https://www.worldcat.org/formats-editions/964699358 "Venice, an interior"]. WorldCat.

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• Berg, Karen, Javier Marías's Postmodern Praxis: Humor and Interplay Between Reality and Fiction in His Novels and Essays (2008) ([https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3216940 Doctoral dissertation (2006)], later published as book {{ISBN|978-3-63945-397-3}} (2012 ed.))
• Cunado, Isabel, [https://books.google.com/books/about/El_espectro_de_la_herencia.html?id=RVA8vyEWDz4C El Espectro de la Herencia: La Narrativa de Javier Marías] (2004). {{ISBN|978-9-04201-612-5}}
• Herzberger, David K. A Companion to Javier Marías. Rochester, NY: Tamesis Books, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-85566-230-8}}
• {{cite book|last1=Miles|first1=Valerie|author-link=Valerie Miles|title=A Thousand Forests in One Acorn|date=2014|publisher=Open Letter|location=Rochester, NY|isbn=978-1-934824-91-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/thousandforestsi0000unse/page/585 585–616]|url=https://archive.org/details/thousandforestsi0000unse/page/585}}

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• {{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5680/the-art-of-fiction-no-190-javier-marias| title=Javier Marias, The Art of Fiction No. 190| author=Sarah Fay| date=Winter 2006| journal=The Paris Review | volume=Winter 2006| issue=179}}
• Chelsea Bauch, [http://flavorwire.com/48731/exclusive-qa-spanish-author-javier-marias "Exclusive Q&A: Spanish Author Javier Marías"], 30 November 2009.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090803192411/http://www.granta.com/Magazine/107/Airships/1 "Airships"] (translated by Margaret Jull Costa), Granta 107, Summer 2009.
• [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4784132.stm "Javier Marías"], BBC HardTalk Extra, 3 March 2006. Video
• Wyatt Mason, [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/11/14/051114crbo_books?currentPage=all "A Man Who Wasn't There"], The New Yorker, 14 November 2005.
• [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/10/opinion/edmarias.php "Feeling London's bombs in Madrid"], The New York Times, 11 July 2005.
• Sarah Emily Miano, [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1478815,00.html "Betrayal of a blood brother"], The Observer, 8 May 2005.

• [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/opinion/11marias.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "How to remember, how to forget"], The New York Times, 11 September 2004.
• [http://www.barcelonareview.com/15/e_jm.htm "Fewer Scruples"], Barcelona Review, No. 15, November 1999.
• [http://quarterlyconversation.com/marcel-proust-in-search-lost-time-javier-marias-all-souls "The Limits of Human Memory: On Proust and Javier Marías"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826124833/https://quarterlyconversation.com/marcel-proust-in-search-lost-time-javier-marias-all-souls |date=26 August 2022 }} The Quarterly Conversation, Issue 17.
• John M. Keller, [http://drcicerobooks.com/lit/marias.html “Interview with Javier Marías”]. Dr. Cicero, Spring 2021.

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