Javier Mar s has died. And I have no doubt that the world of Spanish literature is in mourning. In addition to being a narrator, he was a translator, essayist and member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language. He was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and a Knight of the Order of Letters, as well as winner of many very important literary prizes, such as the José Donoso, the Formentor de las Letras and the Library Lion of the Biblioteca P