About Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature. His story, "Nada para morir", won the Sésamo Prize, and in 1958 he published his first novel, Encerrados con un solo juguete (Locked Up With a Single Toy), which was a finalist of the Biblioteca Breve Seix Barral Prize. In 1965 he won the Biblioteca Breve Prize with Últimas tardes con Teresa (Last Evenings with Teresa). The latter was published in Mexico due to Francoist censorship and won the Novel International Prize.
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