The language institution incorporates one of the Spanish novelists with the greatest international prestige, with enormous influence on contemporary European literature.
With the entry of Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 62 years old) into the Royal Spanish Academy, the learned house incorporates the writer of Spanish literature with the greatest global prestige. Cercas has been recognized as an international author by readers of the main Western literary systems (he does not fall below 30,000 copies in French, for example) and through the granting of all kinds of awards (the list is endless, many, many more outside Spain than in Spain).
But also, by colleagues in the profession, many of them great figures of European literary non-fiction. Years ago, for example, he began receiving emails from Éric Vuillard who was still unknown and confesses to being his disciple. On November 14th, he had a conversation with Antonio Scurati at the Ñ Festival in Madrid, and the author of El hijo del siglo repeated that one of his main models for writing his monumental novel about Mussolini had been Anatomía de un instante (2009).
