Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies in Madrid hospital aged 70

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Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies in Madrid hospital aged 70

Sep 13 2022

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 of pneumonia in hospital in Madrid at the age of 70.

Source: The Guardian

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