Spanish novelist Javier Marías has died

Spanish novelist Javier Marías has died at age seventy.

The Associated Press reports that Marías — who published fifteen novels, translations, and collections of his weekly newspaper columns — was, for years, considered a leading Nobel Prize for Literature candidate and his country's greatest novelist of the past half-century.

Some of his best-known works are Corazón tan blanco (A Heart So White), Todas las almas (All Souls), and Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me).

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