Ignacio Echevarría Explained

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".

Notes and References

1. Web site: Matute . Fran G. . 2020-01-14 . Ignacio Echevarría: "Todo crítico que no admite sus limitaciones como lector es un presuntuoso, un arrogante" - Jot Down Cultural Magazine . 2023-06-29 . es.
2. Web site: El 'de profundis' de Ignacio Echevarría . Spanish . El Mundo . 31 July 2010.
3. News: Echevarría. Ignacio. Un elegia pastoral. 1 January 2015. El País. Madrid. 4 September 2004. Spanish.
4. Web site: Carta al director de El País. Spanish.
5. Web site: Harvesting Fragments From a Chilean Master (Published 2012) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200806204657/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/books/woes-of-the-true-policeman-by-roberto-bolano.html?_r=0 . 2020-08-06 . live .
6. News: Massot. Josep. La viuda del escritor, Carolina López: "Roberto Bolaño tuvo tiempo de disfrutar el reconocimiento". 1 January 2015. La Vanguardia. 19 December 2010. Spanish.