ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA

Their origins• Antonio Muñoz Molina (born

10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States. In 2004-2005 he served as the director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York.• Antonio Muñoz Molina's

reading out of "La noche de los tiempos"

• He was born in the town of Úbeda in Jaén province.

His introduction to writing•He studied art history at the University of Granada and journalism in Madrid. He began writing in the 1980s and his first published book, El Robinsón urbano, a collection of his journalistic work, was published in 1984. His columns have regularly appeared in El País and Die Welt.

Firsts novels• His first novel, Beatus ille,

appeared in 1986. It features the imaginary city of Mágina — a re-creation of his Andalusian birthplace — which would reappear in some his later works.

• In 1987 Muñoz Molina was awarded Spain's National Narrative Prize for El invierno en Lisboa (translated as Winter in Lisbon), a homage to the genres of film noir and jazz music. His El jinete polaco received the Planeta Prize in 1991 and, again, the National Narrative Prize in 1992.

Famous phrases of Antonio MuñozMolina

• Reading is the only sovereign act that remains.• The effects of love or tenderness are fleeting, but the error, single error; never end, as a hopeless disease caveman.•What is so late in coming as if he had not come, worse even, because compliance untimely what is both just wanted to have a side of sarcasm.

Bibliography

• El Robinsón urbano, 1984.• Diario de Nautilus, 1985.• Beatus Ille, 1986. English

translation: A Manuscript of Ashes. Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.• El invierno en Lisboa, 1987. English

translation: Winter in Lisbon. London : Granta, 1999.• Las otras vidas, 1988.• Beltenebros, 1989. English

translation: Prince of Shadows. London : Quartet, 1993• El jinete polaco, 1991.• Los misterios de Madrid, 1992.• Nada del otro mundo, 1993.• El dueño del secreto, 1994.• Las apariencias, 1995.

• Ardor guerrero, 1995.• La huerta del Edén, 1996.• Pura alegría, 1996.• Plenilunio, 1997.• Carlota Fainberg, 1999.• En ausencia de Blanca, 2001.

English translation: In her absence. New York : Other Press, c2006.• Sefarad, 2001. English translation:

Sepharad. Orlando : Harcourt, c2003.• La vida por delante, 2002.• Las ventanas de Manhattan, 2004• El viento de la luna, 2006• Días de diario, 2007• La noche de los tiempos, 2009