Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Barcelona, June 14, 1939 - Bangkok, October 18, 2003) was a Spanish journalist, poet and novelist, mainly known for his novels featuring Pepe Carvalho, a Barcelona private investigator of Galician origin. His novel Galíndez won him the Aristeion Prize in 1992.
He started out in 1967 as a poet, and his poetical work up to 1986 is published as Memoria y deseo (Memory and desire).
He was a Communist and member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. He was also well known gastronome, like his character Pepe Carvalho; in a few of his books, recipes appear.
For many years, he contributed columns and articles to the Madrid daily newspaper El País.
He died in Bangkok, Thailand, while returning to his home country from a speaking tour of Australia.
[edit] Works
(only books that are confirmed to be available in English have their titles translated)
- Yo maté a Kennedy 1972
- Tatuaje (Tatuaje) 1975
- The Angst-Ridden Executive (La soledad del manager) 1977
- Southern Seas (Los Mares del Sur) 1979
- Murder in the Central Committee (Asesinato en el Comité Central) 1981
- Los pájaros de Bangkok 1983
- La rosa de Alejandría 1984
- El balneario 1986
- Offside" (El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer) 1989
- El laberinto griego 1991
- An Olympic Death (Sabotaje olímpico) 1993
- El hermano pequeño 1994
- El Premio 1996
- The Buenos Aires Quintet (Quinteto de Buenos Aires) 1997
- El hombre de mi vida 2000
- Milenio Carvalho 2004
- La Aznaridad 2003
