Fernando Marías Amondo (13 June 1958 – 5 February 2022) was a Spanish writer.
Biography
Born on 13 June 1958 in
Bilbao
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, Marías moved to
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in 1975 to study cinema at the university. His debut novel (which he later adapted to a feature film screenplay in ''
The End of a Mystery
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'') was published in 1990. He won the 2001
Premio Nadal
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for ''El niño de los coroneles''.
He died in Madrid on 5 February 2022, at the age of 63.
Works
;Novels
* ''La luz prodigiosa'' (1990)
* ''Esta noche moriré'' (1992)
* ' (2001)
* ''Invasor'' (2003)
* ''La mujer de las alas grises'' (2003)
* ''El mundo se acaba todos los días'' (2005)
* ''Cielo abajo'' (2005)
* ''Zara y el librero de Bagdad'' (2008)
* ''Todo el amor y casi toda la muerte'' (2010)
* ''La isla del padre'' (2015)
* ''Arde este libro'' (2021)
References
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1958 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Spanish writers
21st-century Spanish writers
Basque writers
People from Bilbao
Spanish novelists
Spanish screenwriters
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