Javier
Fernández de Castro (Aranda de Duero, 1942) studied journalism
in Pamplona and Madrid. He has turned his hand to many jobs, from
publishing to lecturing at the Faculty of Philosophy in San Sebastian,
from working as a press correspondent in London to writing scripts
for television.
His first novel, Alimento de Salto, came out in 1972,
since when he has published Así
en la tierra (1977), Cuentos
del Señor de la Lluvia (1977; new version 2006), Laberinto
de fango (1983), La
novia del capitán (1987), La
guerra de los trofeos (1991), Tiempo
de Beleño (1994), La
tierra prometida (2000) and Crónica
de la mucha muerte (2001).
His new book, Tres cuentos de otoño (Three Autumn's Tales) has been published by Ediciones B (Bruguera) in February 2008.
At present, he is working on his latest novel in which, as on
other occasions, he features characters from earlier writings
(in this case the Balanus clan) who make a re-appearance, lending
a sense of continuity to an extravagant, disorderly saga replete
with situations mad and absurd, yet strangely probable.
He has also been working for some years on a book of travels through
Burgos in Old Castile, the land of Count Fernán González
and El Cid.
Javier Fernández de Castro is also a literary critic in the blog "El boomeran(g)".
