Javier Calvo

Javier Calvo Perales is a Spanish writer born in Barcelona in 1973.

Life

Javier Calvo graduated in journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and studied comparative literature at Pompeu Fabra University.

He's married to American writer and photographer Mara Faye Lethem. They have two children.

Work

Laugh Tracks

His first short-story compilation, Risas enlatadas (Laugh Tracks, 2001), shows stylistic elements that differ extremely from those of contemporary Spanish narrative: sampling or movie snippets, manipulated quotes of other texts, compressed plots from other novels and an "open" conception of narration, taken from Free Cinema and the montage techniques of filmmakers such as Jean Eustache or John Cassavetes. Other influences, recognizable in this book are the English novel and the audiovisual world of cinema and television, with many of his short stories using the world of television as a theme.

The Reflecting God

Along the same line of his short story book, the novel El Dios Reflectante (The Reflecting God) was published in 2003. It is the epic-comical chronicle of the shooting of a science fiction film in London and of the many ways that the eccentricity of its director, Matsuhiro Takei, has unpredictable consequences in the life of the film's crew. In the pages of this book, the author repeats the sampling technique, the manipulation of fragments of other movies and the organization of the novel's parts following certain montage sequence techniques. The novel was a unanimous critical success and was immediately translated to Italian and German.

Javier Calvo (actor)

Javier Del Ray Calvo Guirao (born January 21, 1991 in Madrid) is a Spanish actor. He is the best known for his role of Fernando "Fer" Redondo in the Antena 3 series Física o Química.

Career

Calvo began acting in theatre at age 11, eventually appearing in 2007 in film Doctor Infierno. Beginning in 2008, he starred in the Antena 3 television series Física o Química, portraying gay teenager Fernando "Fer" Redondo. Focusing on problems such as drugs, addictions, anorexia and sexual orientation, the series attracted much controversy. Calvo considers the themes of the series "problems that are also present in reality". He, however, received critical acclaim for portraying a gay male in his debut role.

On May 5, 2012, a fan-conference with Calvo took place in Moscow, Russia.

He has made a supporting role appearance in the tv series Amar es para siempre.

He made a supporting role appearance in the tv series Los Misters de Laura.

He is currently directing the musical La Llamada alongside Javier Ambrossi.