Ignacio Echevarría

Ignacio Echevarría Pérez (Barcelona, 1960) is a Spanish literary critic and editor.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Echevarría.

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]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "El 'de profundis' de Ignacio Echevarría". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2010.
  3. Echevarría, Ignacio (4 September 2004). "Un elegia pastoral". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. "Carta al director de El País" (in Spanish).
  5. "Harvesting Fragments From a Chilean Master (Published 2012)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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