Vicente Molina Foix

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Molina and the second or maternal family name is Foix.
Vicente Molina Foix at the Miami Book Fair International 2011

Vicente Molina Foix (born 18 October 1946) is a Spanish writer and film director.[1] Born in Elche in 1946, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid and at the University of London.[2] He taught Spanish literature at the University of Oxford for several years. He drew the attention of critics as a young poet, and was included in a famous 1970 anthology (see Novisimos) of new Spanish poetry by the author José María Castellet. New Cinema in Spain was an account of Spanish cinema from the 2nd World War until 1976.[3] He met with equal success as a writer of prose fiction and non-fiction, winning the Premio Barral in 1973 for his second novel Busto. He has contributed to the national newspaper El País and the magazine Fotogramas.

In 2001, he turned to directing films. His two feature films till date are Sagitario (film) (2001), starring Ángela Molina and Eusebio Poncela, and El dios de madera (2010).

He is openly homosexual and much of his work draws on his gay experience.[4]

Selected works

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References

  1. ↑ Bio
  2. ↑ Molina-Foix, V. (1977) New Cinema in Spain. London: British Film Institute; p. iv
  3. ↑ Molina-Foix, V. (1977) New Cinema in Spain. London: British Film Institute
  4. ↑ Alfredo Martínez Expósito, «Vicente Molina Foix», in Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon (ed.), Routledge, 2001, p.141.

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