Fernando Marías

Fernando Marías Amondo (13 June 1958 – 5 February 2022) was a Spanish writer.

Fernando Marías
Marías in 2007
Born	Fernando Marías Amondo (1958-06-13)13 June 1958 Bilbao, Spain
Died	(2022-02-05)5 February 2022 (age 63) Madrid, Spain
Occupations	Novelist screenwriter

Biography

Born on 13 June 1958 in Bilbao, Biscay, Marías moved to Madrid in 1975 to study cinema at the university.^[1][2] His debut novel (which he later adapted to a feature film screenplay for The End of a Mystery)^[3] was published in 1990. He won the 2001 Premio Nadal for El niño de los coroneles.^[4] He died in Madrid on 5 February 2022, at the age of 63.^[5][6]

Works

Novels

• La luz prodigiosa (1990)
• Esta noche moriré (1992)^[4]
• El niño de los coroneles [es] (2001)^[4]
• Invasor (2003)^[4]
• La mujer de las alas grises (2003)^[7]
• El mundo se acaba todos los días (2005)^[7]
• Cielo abajo (2005)^[7]
• Zara y el librero de Bagdad (2008)^[4]
• Todo el amor y casi toda la muerte (2010)^[7]
• La isla del padre (2015)^[7]
• Arde este libro (2021)^[7]