About: Ignacio Echevarría

Ignacio Echevarría Pérez (Barcelona, 1960) is a Spanish literary critic and editor. Echevarría was a staff member of Spanish newspaper El País., until its editors removed him in 2004 for a vituperative review of El hijo del acordeonista by Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga. 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. In 2007, Daniel Zalewski in The New Yorker called Echevarría "Spain's most prominent literary critic".