Javier Cercas is the second Spanish author to receive the Taofen Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in China. In this year’s edition, the finalists for the foreign fiction category were the German Judith Hermann, the Russian Xenia Pushka, the Japanese Shinya Tanaka, the French Adrien Bosc and the Dutch Tommy Wieringa.
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