Félix de Azúa
Félix de Azúa (b. 1944) is a Spanish writer. With a PhD in philosophy, he has written poetry and short stories as well as essays. In the 1980s he served as the director of the Instituto Cervantes in Paris and taught aesthetics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. In 2005 he joined other intellectuals in signing a manifesto against Catalan nationalism, which subsequently gave rise to the Ciutadans party. He regularly contributes to the Spanish papers El País and ABC.
Updated: 4 June 2010
Is it possible to write a novel combining the literary atmospheres of several European nations? That is what the young and gifted Argentine Patricio Pron does in El comienzo de la primavera, according to his Spanish counterpart Félix de Azúa.