Ignacio Echevarría Pérez (Barcelona, 1960) is a Spanish literary critic and editor.[1]
Echevarría was a staff member of Spanish newspaper El País.,[2] until its editors removed him in 2004 for a vituperative review of El hijo del acordeonista by Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga.[3] The novel had appeared in Alfaguara, a publishing house then owned by the same media group as the newspaper. His ousting prompted a letter of protest signed by writers, editors and regular contributors.[4]
Echevarría has been mistakenly taken for the literary executor of Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño,[5] but the Bolaño Estate has categorically denied this assertion ever been true.[6]
In 2007, Daniel Zalewski in The New Yorker called Echevarría "Spain's most prominent literary critic".[7]
References
edit- ^ Matute, Fran G. (14 January 2020). "Ignacio Echevarría: "Todo crítico que no admite sus limitaciones como lector es un presuntuoso, un arrogante" - Jot Down Cultural Magazine" (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "El 'de profundis' de Ignacio Echevarría". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2010.
- ^ Echevarría, Ignacio (4 September 2004). "Un elegia pastoral". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ "Carta al director de El País" (in Spanish).
- ^ "Harvesting Fragments From a Chilean Master (Published 2012)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020.
- ^ Massot, Josep (19 December 2010). "La viuda del escritor, Carolina López: "Roberto Bolaño tuvo tiempo de disfrutar el reconocimiento"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Zalewski, Daniel (2007), "Vagabonds: Roberto Bolaño and his fractured masterpiece", The New Yorker, 26 March 2007: "When 'The Savage Detectives' was published, Ignacio Echevarría, Spain's most prominent literary critic, praised it as 'the kind of novel that Borges could have written.' "
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