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Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

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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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    Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

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    Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

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  • Sicario

    Representative edition published 2022

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  • Arena y viento

    Representative edition published 2021

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  • Año de fuegos

    Representative edition published 2019

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  • Los bisontes de Altamira

    Representative edition published 2019

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  • Baja mar

    Representative edition published 2018

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  • Touareg

    Representative edition published 2018

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  • Rumbo a la noche

    Representative edition published 2017

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  • Pederastas

    Representative edition published 2017

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  • Adiós, Mister Trump

    Representative edition published 2017

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  • Ícaro

    Representative edition published 2017

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  • La barbarie

    Representative edition published 2016

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  • Centauros

    Representative edition published 2016

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  • Medusa

    Representative edition published 2015

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  • Hambre

    Representative edition published 2015

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  • Crimen contra la humanidad

    Representative edition published 2015

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  • La Taberna de los Cuatro Vientos

    Representative edition published 2014

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  • Bímini

    Representative edition published 2013

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  • Siete vidas y media

    Representative edition published 2012

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  • El mar en llamas

    Representative edition published 2012

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  • Vivos y muertos

    Representative edition published 2012

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  • La bella bestia

    Representative edition published 2012

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  • El mar de jade

    Representative edition published 2011

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  • Irina Dogonovic

    Representative edition published 2011

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  • Coltan

    Representative edition published 2011

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