# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/javier-cercas
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:32.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/javier-cercas"
name: "Javier Cercas"
slug: "javier-cercas"
description: "Javier Cercas Mena is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. Awards he has won for his novels include the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Soldiers of Salamis, and the European Book Prize for The Impostor."
tagline: "Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature"
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country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1962-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump