Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
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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Sicario
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Arena y viento
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Año de fuegos
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Los bisontes de Altamira
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Baja mar
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Touareg
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Rumbo a la noche
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Pederastas
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Adiós, Mister Trump
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Ícaro
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La barbarie
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Centauros
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Medusa
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Hambre
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Crimen contra la humanidad
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La Taberna de los Cuatro Vientos
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Bímini
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Siete vidas y media
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El mar en llamas
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Vivos y muertos
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La bella bestia
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El mar de jade
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Irina Dogonovic
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Coltan
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Adiós, Mister Trump
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Ícaro
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La barbarie
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Crimen contra la humanidad
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La Taberna de los Cuatro Vientos
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Bímini
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El mar en llamas
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La bella bestia
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Irina Dogonovic
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