Barcelona, July 19

The literary company of Juan Marse says the Spanish novelist has died. He was 87.

The Carmen Balcells company introduced his passing on Sunday. It didn’t give a cause for his loss of life.

Marse was certainly one of Spain’s most-respected novelists over the previous few a long time and the winner of the 2008 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s prime literary award.

Marse’s most necessary novel was “Úlitmas tardes on Teresa” (“Last Afternoons with Teresa”) printed in 1965. It chronicles the misadventure of a working-class adolescent who tries to win over a lady from the upscale aspect of Barcelona.

Marse, a local of the town, adopted that success with a number of different novels that kind a portrait of the social transformation of Spain throughout the latter a part of the 20th century. AP