El escritor Javier Marías, en su casa de Madrid en una imagen de 2016. Foto: SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ 

The Spanish novelist Javier Marías, author of All Souls, A Heart so White, and the epic, three-part Your Face Tomorrow – and a writer regularly touted as a candidate for the Nobel prize for literature – has died at home in Madrid at the age of 70.

Marías, who had been ill with pneumonia for the past month, died on Sunday, according to his publisher, Alfaguara.

“It is with enormous sadness that we regret to inform you that our great author and friend Javier Marías has died in Madrid this afternoon,” the publisher said in a brief statement...

The Guardian: Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies at home in Madrid aged 70