{"personal_name": "Alberto Va\u0301zquez-Figueroa", "source_records": ["amazon:8447337944", "amazon:8422684497", "amazon:849759956X", "ia:tuaregroman0000vazq_b1m7"], "remote_ids": {"isni": "0000000121031277", "wikidata": "Q645406", "viaf": "93898463"}, "links": [{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_V%C3%A1zquez-Figueroa", "title": "Wikipedia (English)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_V%C3%A1zquez-Figueroa", "title": "Wikipedia (Spanish)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Offical Website", "url": "https://www.albertovazquezfigueroa.es/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "birth_date": "11 October 1936", "key": "/authors/OL90715A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [6682940], "bio": "Alberto V\u00e1zquez-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.\r\n\r\nHe was a war correspondent in *La Vanguardia,* for TVE (Televisi\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola) 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.\r\n\r\nHe 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 *\u00c9bano.* His other works include *Tuareg* and *El perro,* as well as the sagas *Cienfuegos, Bora Bora, Manaos* and *Piratas.* \r\n\r\nHis novel *Tuareg* was cinematized in 1984 by director Enzo G. Castellari His novel *Iguana* was cinematized in 1988 by Monte Hellman. His novel *Garo\u00e9* (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.*\r\n\r\nHe is also a screenwriter and film director and has made such films as *Oro rojo.*", "name": "Alberto Va\u0301zquez-Figueroa", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-11-01T17:15:56.425405"}}