Outlaws

A Note on the Author

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment, which won Spain’s National Narrative Prize. He taught at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s and for many years was a lecturer in Spanish literature at the University of Gerona. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2011 he was awarded the International Prize of the Turin Book Fair for his oeuvre. He lives in Barcelona.