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Marcos Giralt Torrente

Biography

Marcos Giralt Torrente

Marcos Giralt Torrente was born in Madrid in 1968 and is the author of three novels, a novella, and a book of short stories. He was a writer in residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome and at the University of Aberdeen, and was part of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme in 2002–2003. He is the recipient of several distinguished awards, including the Spanish National Book Award in 2011. His works have been translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, and Portuguese.

Marcos Giralt Torrente

Books by Marcos Giralt Torrente

by Marcos Giralt Torrente - Autobiography, Fatherhood, Nonfiction, Parenting

When his father is diagnosed with cancer, the author is struck by the blunt force of it all. FATHER AND SON weaves in history and personal narrative to attempt to do justice to a relationship that the author finds difficult to reflect upon --- but one that he can’t escape. In the end, the reader is left with an account that is neither homage nor reckoning, but instead an indelible dual portrait of a father and his son.