Javier Montes

Javier Montes (Madrid, 1976) is a writer, literary and art critic and exhibition curator.
He is author of five novels. In 2007 he won the 25th Anagrama Essay Prize with ‘La ceremonia del porno’ (which he wrote with Andrés Barba, a 2014 Leonardo grant recipient), and in 2008 the International José María de Pereda International Novel Prize with ‘Los penúltimos.’

‘Luz del Fuego’ will tell the story of Dora Vivacqua, a famous ballet dancer in the Brazil of the 1940s and 1950s. She was also a pioneer of nudism, female emancipation and a new moral, sexual and environmental outlook, as well as being founder of the Naturist Party.
In addition, the novel will tackle the social and cultural history of Brazil in the 20th century, which starting in the 1930s saw the creation of one the most interesting and rich trends in modernism, though it is unknown by most people in Spain.