Javier Marías, the author of Your Face Tomorrow, is also the ruler of the Kindgom of Redonda, which occupies a one-square-mile island in the Caribbean Ocean. What follows is a list of the dukes and duchesses that Marías has named since assuming the crown in 1997. (A full list of the Redondan peerage may be found here.)

Pedro Almodóvar, Duke of Trémula (1999)
António Lobo Antunes, Duke of Cocodrilos (2001)
John Ashbery, Duke of Convexo (1999)
Antony Beevor, Duke of Stalingrado (2006)
Pierre Bourdieu, Duke of Desarraigo (1999)
William Boyd, Duke of Brazzaville (1999)
Ray Bradbury, Duke of Diente de León (2006)
Michael Braudeau, Duke of Miranda (2004)
AS Byatt, Duchess of Morpho Eugenia (1999)
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Duke of Tigres (1999)
Pietro Citati, Duke of Remonstranza (2002)
JM Coetzee, Duke of Deshonra (2001)
Francis Ford Coppola, Duke of Megalópolis(1999)
Agustin Díaz Yanes, Duke of Michelín (1999)
Roger Dobson, Duke of Bridaespuela (1999)
Sir John Elliott, Duke of Simancas (2002)
Frank O. Gehry, Duke of Nervión (2001)
Pere Gimferrer, Duke of Arder (2006)
Francis Haskell, Duke of Sommariva (1999)
Claudio Magris, Duke of Segunda Mano (2003)
Eduardo Mendoza, Duke of Isla Larga (1999)
Ian Michael, Duke of Bernal (2000)
Alice Munro, Duchess of Ontario (2005)
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Duke of Corso (1999)
Francisco Rico, Duke of Parezzo (1999)
Ian Robertson, Duke of Impertinentes (2006)
Eric Rohmer, Duke of Olalla (2004)
Sir Peter Russell, Duke of Plazatoro (1999)
Fernando Savater, Duke of Caronte (1999)
WG Max Sebald, Duke of Vértigo (2000)
George Steiner, Duke of Girona (2007)
Luis Antonio de Villena, Duke of Malmundo (1999)
Juan Villoro, Duke of Nochevieja (1999)