Nijar Country Tapa blanda - 2011

Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in fascist Spain. Publishing Njar Country in 1954, he was declared persona non grata. For years, he says, his name was better known in police stations than in Spanish literary circles. In 1956 he moved to Paris where he married Marcel Proust's cousin, the writer Monique Lange. After her death in 1986, Goytisolo settled in Marrakech, where he presently lives.

Peter Bush, the internationally esteemed translator, brings Catalan, French, Portuguese, and Spanish literature into English. Njar Country is his eleventh translation of a work by Juan Goytisolo. Bush was awarded the Valle-Incln Prize for Literary Translation for The Marx Family Saga . Bush now makes his home in Barcelona.