Arturo Pérez-Reverte remembers his friend Javier Marías in the Alsina program on Onda Cero
“It is a huge injustice that Javier died without the Nobel Prize,” RAE writer and academic Arturo Pérez-Reverte said this morning of his friend Javier Marías who died this Sunday at the age of 70 from complications of pneumonia. The author of ‘The fencing master’ has highlighted the “massive injustice” that Marías died without receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the few international awards he missed. “The fact that Javier didn’t get the Nobel Prize is a disgrace to the Academy. It discredits that Javier is not there,” Reverte said in an interview with Carlos Alsina on Onda Cero this morning, along the same lines as the message he wrote on Twitter early Sunday afternoon, shortly after learning of Marías’ death.
“He is the only one who would have accepted, he was very enemy of awards. He was our Nobel laureate, I always thought he would be that from one year to the next,” said Pérez-Reverte of his good friend with whom he shared “comics and movies” and with whom he remembered his great sense of humor . “He kept a certain almost childlike innocence,” said the Cartagena author in the interview with Carlos Alsina. “The memory of childhood and youth united us.”
Source: La Verdad
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