Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa


Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa is a Spanish novelist, inventor and industrialist. His novels have sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Vázquez-Figueroa is the owner of A.V.F.S.L, a desalination company that uses a method of desalination by pressure that he invented.
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Biography

Vázquez-Figueroa and his family fled from the Canary Islands to Africa during the Spanish Civil War. Since his youth, he has visited the Sahara and written about the culture of the desert region. He also worked as a instructor of submarine and diving techniques on oceanologist Jacques Cousteau's vessel, "Cruz del Sur." He attended the studios of the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid in a part of 1962 and worked in the Destino specials. He was a war correspondent in La Vanguardia, for TVE and for the program A toda plana with de la Cuadra Salcedo and Silva. 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, and in 1975, he published as many as 14 to 15 novellas such as Ébano. His other works include Tuareg, Ébano, and El perro as well as the sagas Cienfuegos, Bora Bora, Manaos and Piratas. His novel Tuareg was adapted into a film in 1984 by director Enzo G. Castellari. His novel Iguana was cinematized in 1988 by Monte Hellman. His novel Garoé, which is the name of a sacred tree in the Canary Islands, won the 2010 Historical Novel Prize Alfonso X El Sabio, valued at €100,000. He has also published an autobiography entitled Anaconda.
He is also a screenwriter and film director and has made such films as Red Gold.

Literature

Tuareg Tras las huellas de Alec
  • Serie Cienfuegos
  • * Cienfuegos
  • * Caribes
  • * Saud el Leopardo
  • * Azabache
  • * Montenegro
  • * Brazofuerte
  • * Xaraguá
  • * Tierra de bisontes Olvidar Machu-Picchu ManaosViracochaAnacondaNuevos diosesEl agua prometidaLa ordalía del venenoMarea negraFuerteventura
  • Serie Océano :
  • *Isla de Lobos
  • *Yaiza
  • *Maradentro
  • Serie Piratas :
  • * Piratas
  • * Negreros
  • * Leon BocanegraTiempo de conquistadores Un mundo mejor El señor de las tinieblasEl anillo verdeDelfines La ruta de OrellanaLa IguanaÍcaroBora BoraÉbano ¡Panamá, Panamá!Tierra virgen. La destrucción del AmazonasEl inca Los ojos del tuareg VendavalCiudadano MaxÁfrica lloraMarfilSicarioPalmira¿Quién mató al embajador?Como un perro rabioso Matar a Gadafi Vivir del vientoEl rey leproso Bajo siete maresPor mil millones de dólares
  • ''Coltan''

Filmography