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Juan Marse is one of Spain's most celebrated writers. Last Evenings with Teresa (1966), now in English translation for the first time, is considered his masterpiece. In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most important literary honour. He died in 2020.
Spain's finest contemporary novelist * Guardian * Juan Marsé's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable * TLS * Last Evenings with Teresa has everything one can ask of a novel; it seems to have been written in a state of grace * Javier Cercas * Between illusions and realities, with his own free creative will - the opposite of the recipe for a social novel - Juan Marsé offered a memorable panorama of 1950s Barcelona and its wild heroism * Lluís Izquierdo * I consider Juan Marsé the best storyteller Spanish literature has given us in many decades * Ignacio Echevarría * He has never written a single page where something interesting isn't happening * Eduardo Mendoza * One of Spain's most acclaimed writers * New York Times *
