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Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (born 11 October 1936 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands) is a Spanish novelist, inventor and industrialist.[1] His novels have sold over 25 million copies worldwide.[2] He is the owner of A.V.F.S.L, a desalinization company that uses a method of desalinization by pressure, invented by himself.[3]

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Álberto Vázquez-Figueroa in Barcelona in 2009
BornAlberto Vázquez-Figueroa
(1936-11-11) 11 November 1936 (age 85)
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands
OccupationFiction writer, journalist, inventor, screenwriter, film director
NationalitySpanish
Alma materEscuela Oficial de Periodismo, Madrid
Period1953–present
Notable worksTuareg (1980)
Notable awardsHistorical Novel Prize Alfonso X El Sabio (2010)

Biography


Vázquez-Figueroa and his family fled from the Canary Islands to Africa during the Spanish Civil War. Since his youth, he visited the Sahara and described the culture of the desert region.[4] He also worked as a teacher of submarine and diving techniques on the school boat "Cruz del Sur" of the oceanologist Jacques Cousteau[5] He attended the studios of the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid in a part of 1962 and worked in the Destino specials.[6] He was a war correspondent in La Vanguardia, for TVE (Televisión Española) and for the program A toda plana with de la Cuadra Salcedo and Silva. As a correspondent, he documented revolutionary wars in countries such as Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.

He later wrote his first novel, Arena y viento (Sand and Wind), and in 1975, he published as many as 14 to 15 novellas such as Ébano. His other works include Tuareg, Ébano, and El perro as well as the sagas Cienfuegos, Bora Bora, Manaos and Piratas. His novel Tuareg was cinematized in 1984 by director Enzo G. Castellari.[7] His novel Iguana was cinematized in 1988 by Monte Hellman. His novel Garoé (the name of a sacred tree in the Canary Islands) won the 2010 Historical Novel Prize Alfonso X El Sabio, valued at €100,000.[2] He has also published an autobiography entitled Anaconda.[8]

He is also a screenwriter and film director and has made such films as Oro rojo.[9]


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Filmography



References


  1. "Biography". Archived from the original on 16 December 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  2. "Alberto Vazquez Figueroa, who won the X Prize Historical Novel Alfonso X El Sabio with his novel "Garoé"". La Cerca. 19 April 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  3. Ana Antón. "Vázquez Figueroa presenta su invento: desaladoras por presión natural que dan agua casi gratis". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  4. Vázquez-Figueroa, Alberto - Biografía, libros, citas y guía de cine
  5. "Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa en diálogo con Íñigo Alfonso" (in Spanish). Fundación Juan March. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  6. "Vázquez-Figueroa analiza en Alicante la relación del coltán con la reactivación de la guerra del Congo". Diario Información (in Spanish). Grupo Prensa Ibérica Media. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  7. Tuareg - Il guerriero del deserto
  8. Martínez Rico, Eduardo (2004). Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa o la aventura (in Spanish). Plaza & Janés. p. 67. ISBN 9788401335273. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  9. Clarke Fountain (2008). "Oro rojo". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 27 May 2008.



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Альберто Васкес-Фигероа Риаль (исп. Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa Rial) — испанский писатель, журналист и изобретатель. Яркий представитель испанской массовой литературы: по всему миру было продано более 25 миллионов экземпляров книг Васкеса-Фигероа, а ряд его произведений был экранизирован. Он также разработал и запатентовал метод опреснения морской воды[1].


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