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 mistakingly 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]
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 mistakingly 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]