Yesterday Fernando Marías, writer, editor and screenwriter passed away. A great intellectual and a great person, according to the multiple expressions of affection and admiration from the entire book industry.
Fernando Marias
His first steps consisted of writing scripts for television, although the leap that would propel his career came in 1990 with the release of his first novel, La luz prodigiosa, which received the City of Barbastro Award, that would later turn into a film by Miguel Hermoso for which Fernando Marias wrote the script that would end up receiving a nomination for the Goya Awards in 2004.
In 2001, he had already written El segundo nombre de Paco Plaza and, in 2016, the big screen adaptation of his novel Invasor, for the director Daniel Calparsoro.
With the turn of the century, the name of Fernando Marías began to win literary recognition. During the next fifteen years he won the Nadal Prize in 2001, for El niño de los coroneles, the National Award for Young Adult Literature in 2006, for Cielo abajo, the Primavera Award in 2010, for Todo el amor y casi toda la muerte, and the Biblioteca Breve Award in 2015, for La isla del padre.
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