Ignacio Echevarría Pérez (
Barcelona, 1960) is a Spanish literary critic and editor.
Echevarría was a staff member of Spanish newspaper ''
El País
''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...
''., until its editors removed him in 2004 for a vituperative review of ''El hijo del acordeonista'' by Basque writer
Bernardo Atxaga. The novel had appeared in
Alfaguara
Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Latin America, Spain and the United States. It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela.
History and profile
Alfaguara was established in ...
, 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.
Echevarría has been mistakingly taken for the literary executor of Chilean writer
Roberto Bolaño, but the Bolaño Estate has categorically denied this assertion ever been true.
In 2007, Daniel Zalewski in ''
The New Yorker'' called Echevarría "Spain's most prominent literary critic".
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References
Spanish literary critics
1960 births
Living people
Writers from Barcelona
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