Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

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Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (b. November 11, 1936 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands) is a Spanish novelist.

[edit] Biography

Vázquez-Figueroa and his family fled the Canary Islands during the Spanish Civil War for Africa. Since his youth, he visited the Sahara and described the culture of the desert region. He attended the studios of the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid in a part of 1962 and worked in the Destino specials. 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 (Wind and Air), 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 ambitious sagas of Cienfuegos, Bora Bora, Manaos and Piratas. He has also published an autobiography called Anaconda.

As president of a company he made a process consisting of flowing sea water at an elevation of 600 m to form a natural osmotic pressure. The company was constructed in Jordan.

[edit] Literature

  • Tuareg (1980)
  • Tras las huellas de Alec (1971)
  • Serie Cienfuegos
    • Cienfuegos (1987)
    • Caribes (Caribs)
    • Azabache
    • Montenegro
    • Brazofuerte
    • Xaraguá
    • Tierra de bisontes (Land of the bisons)
  • Olvidar Machu-Picchu (1983)
  • Manaos
  • Viracocha
  • Anaconda
  • Nuevos dioses
  • El perro
  • El agua prometida
  • La ordalía del veneno]]
  • Marea negra
  • Fuerteventura
  • Serie Océano (Ocean Series):
    • Isla de Lobos (a.k.a Océano)
    • Yaiza
    • Maradentro
  • Serie Piratas (Pirate Series):
    • Piratas (1996)
    • Negreros
    • Leon Bocanegra
  • Tiempo de conquistadores (2000)
  • Un mundo mejor (2002)
  • El señor de las tinieblas
  • El anillo verde
  • Delfines (Dolphins)
  • La ruta de Orellana
  • La iguana
  • Ícaro
  • Bora Bora
  • Ébano
  • ¡Panamá, Panamá!
  • Tierra virgen. La destrucción del Amazonas
  • El inca (The Inca)
  • Los ojos del tuareg (2000):
  • Vendaval
  • Ciudadano Max
  • África llora
  • Marfil
  • Sicario
  • Palmira
  • ¿Quién mató al embajador?
  • Como un perro rabioso
  • Matar a Gadafi (1997)
  • Vivir del viento
  • El rey leproso (2005)
  • Bajo siete mares
  • Por mil millones de dólares (2007)
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