{"id":43369,"date":"2021-11-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=43369"},"modified":"2022-09-04T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T08:20:43","slug":"javier-cercas-un-ecrivain-qui-ne-prend-pas-de-risques-nest-pas-un-ecrivain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/javier-cercas-un-ecrivain-qui-ne-prend-pas-de-risques-nest-pas-un-ecrivain\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Cercas: \u00abA writer who doesn't take risks isn't a writer\u00bb.\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Le Regard Libre N\u00b0 79 - Ivan Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, the \u00abLe Livre sur les quais\u00bb festival in Morges is the rendezvous of the Swiss literary season, where authors, publishers and readers meet on the shores of Lake Geneva. For this twelfth edition, the honorary president of the event is none other than Spanish writer and translator Javier Cercas. Based in Catalonia, the columnist for the Spanish daily El Pa\u00eds has been writing books since the 1980s. His best-selling novel, The Soldiers of Salamis, published in 2001, features a journalist investigating a mysterious soldier who, during the Spanish Civil War, is said to have saved the ideologue and founding member of the Spanish Falange, Rafael S\u00e1nchez Mazas. Particularly interested in the history of contemporary Spain, from which he draws material for his writings, Javier Cercas has recently embarked on a series of detective novels.\n

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