Javier Cercas was born in 1962.
He is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist, whose books include El Movil (The Motive), El Inquilino (The Tenant), El Vientre de la Ballera (The Belly of the Whale), and Relatos Reales (True Tales).
In the 1980s he taught for two years at the University of Illinois; since 1989 he has been a lecturer in Spanish Literature at the University of Gerona. He is a regular contributor to the Catalan edition of El Pais. His novel, Soldiers of Salamis, adapted into a film by David Trueba in 2003, has been published in 15 languages.
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