Latin American and Caribbean Literature. After seven years of silence he published Rabos de Lagartija (Lizards' Tails), which won the Critic Prize and Narrative National Prize. Marsé was the winner of the 2008 Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award for Spanish-language literature. MacLehose Press published The Calligraphy of Dreams in 2014. Marsé died on 18 July 2020. Film adaptations The Dark History of Cousin Montse (Jordi Cadena, 1977) Girl with the Golden Panties (Vicente Aranda, 1980) Last Evenings with Teresa (Gonzalo Herralde, 1984) If you say that I fell (Vicente Aranda, 1989) The Bilingual Lover (Vicente Aranda, 1993) Domenica - adapted from Ronda del Guinardó (Wilma Labate, 2001) The Shanghai Spell (Fernando Trueba, 2002) Lolita's Club (Vicente Aranda, 2007) External links Official Site of Juan Marsé (in Spanish) Guided tour of locations featured in Marsé's novels References 1933 births 2020 deaths Writers from Barcelona Premio Cervantes winners 20th-century Spanish novelists 21st-century Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists 20th-century Spanish male writers 21st-century Spanish male writers