Rafael Chirbes
Biography
Rafael Chirbes was born in Tabernes de Valldigna, near Valencia in 1949. He studied modern history in Madrid before working as a journalist. He taught Spanish in Morocco (the basis for his first novel and the only one published in English till En la orilla (On the Edge) was published in 2016), and lived in Paris before returning to Spain. As well as writing novels, he has continued as a journalist, writing on literature, travel and food. He died in 2015.
Other sites
Rafael Chirbes
Rafael Chirbes
Rafael Chirbes (in Spanish)
Diario de Rafael Chirbes (from 3 to 14 July, 2009 – in Spanish)
Chalets adosados en el fin del mundo (profile – in Spanish)
El escritor Rafael Chirbes arremete contra Zapatero por construir la ficción de una política progresista (in Spanish)
Interview (in Spanish)
Interview (in Spanish)
Interview (in Spanish)
Interview (in Spanish)
<Obituary (in Spanish)
Obituary (in Spanish)
Bibliography
1988 Mimoun (Mimoun) (novel)
1991 En la lucha final (novel)
1992 La buena letra (novel)
1994 Los disparos del cazador (novel)
1996 La larga marcha [The Long March] (novel)
1997 Mediterráneos (travel)
2000 La caída de Madrid [The Fall of Madrid] (novel)
2002 El novelista perplejo (literature)
2003 Los viejos amigos (novel)
2004 El viajero sedentario (travel)
2007 Crematorio (Cremation) (novel)
2010 Por cuenta propia: leer y escribir (literature)
2013 En la orilla (On the Edge)
2016 París-Austerlitz
2017 l año que nevó en Valencia (memoirs)
2021 Diarios. A ratos perdidos 1 y 2. (diaries)
2021 La buena letra (novel)
2022 Diarios. A ratos perdidos 3 y 4
2023 Asentir o desestabilizar. Crónica contracultural de la Transición (essay)
2023 Diarios. A ratos perdidos 5 y 6