Under the headline “Javier Marías: a life in writing”, the English newspaper publishes an extensive interview with the Spanish author.

“When Javier Marías was a student of English Philology in Madrid in the 1970s he says it was with a sense of 'awe and reverence' that he would buy copies of 'the then grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics. The authors ranged from Conrad to James, Faulkner to Joyce, Thomas Mann to Ford Madox Ford, Woolf to Camus. Not even Nabokov was allowed to be there," writes Nicholas Wroe from The Guardian. “Last year Marías himself became one of just a handful of living writers to join that same list."

Read the complete interview here.