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Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

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

He was a war correspondent in La Vanguardia, for TVE (Televisión Española) and for the program A toda plana with Miguel de la Cuadra Salcedo. 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 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 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. He has also published an autobiography entitled Anaconda.

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

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Spanish author

Born 11 October 1936

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Born 11 October 1936
Subjects
Fiction, Ficción, History, Biography, Romance literature, Spanish Authors, Spanish language books, Description and travel, Discovery and exploration, Historia, Novela, Spanish fiction, Spanish language, Explorers, Fiction, general, General, Indians of South America, Language readers, Spanish, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Texts, Travel, Tuaregs, Abastecimiento, Abuso sexual de niños
Places
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Amazon River Valley, America, América, Peru, Spain, Venezuela, Amazon River, Amazon Valley, Antillas, Bora-Bora (French Polynesia), Congo (Democratic Republic), Exploradores, Galapagos Islands, Latin America, Manaus (Brazil), República dominicana, Sahara, Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Santo Domingo (República dominicana), South America, Sáhara, Tenerife (Canary Islands)
People
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, Alonso de Ojeda (approximately 1466-approximately 1515), Alberto Vásquez-Figueroa, Alonso de Molina (15th/16th cent), Alonso de Ojeda (ca. 1466-ca. 1515), Christopher Columbus, Cristóbal Colon, Francisco Pizarro (approximately 1475-1541), Francisco Pizarro Marqués (1470-1541), Hernán Cortés (1485-1547), Jimmy Angel (d. 1956), Juan Ponce de León (1460?-1521), Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519)
Time
20th century, Revolution, 1965, Conquest, 1522-1548, S. XX

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November 1, 2021 Edited by dcapillae Remove wrong alternative names
November 1, 2021 Edited by AgentSapphire merge authors
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November 1, 2021 Edited by Miguel Edited without comment.
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import