{"id":5721,"date":"2022-09-17T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2022-09-17T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T17:17:26","slug":"in-memoriam-updike-translator-javier-marias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/09\/17\/in-memoriam-updike-translator-javier-marias\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam:  Updike translator Javier Mar\u00edas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-17-at-11.10.31-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-17-at-11.10.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5722\" width=\"229\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-17-at-11.10.31-AM.png 324w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-17-at-11.10.31-AM-244x300.png 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In an obituary for Legacy.com, Linnea Crowther wrote that Spanish novelist Javier Mar\u00edas, &#8220;considered by many to be the greatest living Spanish writer,&#8221; died at his home in Madrid of pneumonia on September 11, 2022 at the age of 70. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Updike, Mar\u00edas found literary acclaim early in life. Only 20 when his first novel, Los <em>Dominios del Lobo<\/em> (<em>Dominions of the Wolf<\/em>) was published, he wrote 16 more novels and numerous short stories and novellas. &#8220;He won the Fray Luis de Le\u00f3n Translation Award for his translation of Laurence Sterne&#8217;s <em>Tristram Shandy<\/em>, and he also translated works by authors including John Updike and Henry James.&#8221; And like Updike, he was widely considered to be a top candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature . . . an honor that would never come, but should have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/news\/celebrity-deaths\/javier-marias-1951-2022-award-winning-spanish-novelist\/\">full Legacy obituary<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an obituary for Legacy.com, Linnea Crowther wrote that Spanish novelist Javier Mar\u00edas, &#8220;considered by many to be the greatest living Spanish writer,&#8221; died at his home in Madrid of pneumonia on September 11, 2022 at the age of 70. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/09\/17\/in-memoriam-updike-translator-javier-marias\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}