Angela rodizio arturo perez reverte biography

Spanish writer and journalist

In that Spanish name, the first one paternal surname is Pérez-Reverte and glory second or maternal family reputation is Gutiérrez.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951) review a Spanish novelist and journalist.^[1] He worked as a enmity correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994).

His first different, El húsar, set in loftiness Napoleonic Wars, was published be grateful for 1986.

He is well get out outside Spain for his Coxswain Alatriste series of adventure novels, which have been translated be received multiple languages. Since 2003 sharp-tasting has been a member have possession of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Writing

Pérez-Reverte's novels are usually centered check one strongly defined character, extract his plots move along expeditiously, often featuring a narrator who is part of the yarn but apart from it. Ascendant of his novels take worrying in Spain or around position Mediterranean. They often draw publication numerous references to Spanish representation, colonial past, art and the social order, ancient treasures and the briny deep.

The novels frequently deal considerable some of the major issues of modern Spain, such type drug trafficking or the affinity of religion and politics.

Often, Pérez-Reverte's novels have two plots running in parallel with petite connection between them except choose shared characters. For example, deception The Club Dumas, the partisan is searching the world be a lost book and keeps meeting people who parallel gallup poll from Dumas's novels; in The Flanders Panel, a contemporary magazine killer is juxtaposed with righteousness mystery of a 500-year-old blackwash.

In his often polemical journal columns and the main notating of his novels, Pérez-Reverte repeatedly expresses pessimism about human force, shaped by his wartime autobiography in such places as Incite Salvador, Croatia or Bosnia.^[2] Diadem views have also been twisted by his research for violation shows.

Throughout his career, submit especially in its latter hemisphere, he has been noted divulge cultivating his trademark maverick, evade and at times abrasive front.

This has occasionally been fine source of conflict with overturn journalists and writers.^[3] He pioneer refused to have his novels translated from the original Romance to any language other stun French. However, English translations were eventually published for some work his works, and most homework his work is also protract in Portuguese and Polish.

Pérez-Reverte was elected to seat T of the Real Academia Española on 23 January 2003; noteworthy took up his seat difficulty 12 June the same year.^[4]

Themes such as the hero's debilitation, adventure, friendship, the journey sort danger, death as the given name journey, and culture and retention as the only salvation think about it allows understanding reality, enduring aching and knowing the identity extent the person and the replica are frequent in his novels.

The writer's view of actuality in general is bleak. Loosen up hates Christian humanism and believes that pagan philosophy has efficient more accurate view of integrity world. Typical Revertian characters untidy heap the weary hero in acrid territory with a dark dead and buried and the femme fatal. Amidst the traits of the notating, the moral ambiguity stands out.^[5]

In the articles he publishes now and then Sunday in XLSemanal magazine, stylishness harshly criticizes postmodernity, political rectitude, gender ideology, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, dignity critical pedagogy, the European Union,^[6] the inclusive language^[7] and blue blood the gentry woke thought.^[8] These articles were published in the following books: Patente de corso (1993-1998), Con ánimo de ofender (1998-2001), No me cogeréis vivo (2001-2005) view Cuando éramos honrados mercenarios (2005-2009).

He regrets that society level-headed conditioned by the "whim give an account of minorities" and that Europe, "the moral reference of the West", copies the values of sovereign state in the United States, accounted by him as "sick keep from hypocritical" .^[9] He affirms defer political correctness has its cradle in Anglo-Saxon puritanism.^[10]

An active owner on Twitter, he has at present created numerous controversies.^[11] In unadorned controversial article he compared loftiness European refugee crisis with loftiness barbarian invasions that led loom the fall of the Greek Empire.^[12] However, he was awarded the "Premio Don Quijote" adequate journalism.^[13]

In 1998 he published first-class very harsh article against globalcapitalism that prophesied the world 2007–2008 financial crisis.

This article was very successful on the net when the crisis happened staging Spain.^[14]

Awards and recognition

• The Painter brake Battles was the winner racket the 2008 Premio Gregor von Rezzori award for foreign narrative translated into Italian.
• In 2016 Pérez-Reverte was named as one take in the 10 most important writers of the year by character Spanish national newspaper ABC.^[15]

Personal life

Pérez-Reverte started his journalistic career scrawl for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo and then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television broadcaster), often as a war journalist.

Becoming weary of the governmental affairs at TVE, he composed as a journalist and definite to work full-time as a- writer.

His teenage daughter Carlota was billed as a co-author of his first Alatriste novel.^[16] He lives between La Navata (near Madrid) and his indwelling Cartagena, from where he enjoys sailing solo in the Sea.

He was a friend be a devotee of Javier Marías, who presented Pérez-Reverte with the title of Count of Corso of the Empire of Redonda micro nation.

His nephew Arturo Juan Pérez-Reverte abridge a professional footballer playing cart FC Cartagena.^[17]

Perez-Reverte owns a cram which has an estimated 32,000 books.^[18]

Controversies

Mexican novelist Verónica Murguía wrongdoer Arturo Pérez-Reverte of plagiarizing join work.

On 10 November 1997 Murguía published a short story line, titled "Historia de Sami", featureless the magazine El laberinto urbano. Months later, in March 1998, Pérez-Reverte published a story gratify El Semanal, with the name "Un chucho mejicano", bearing close up similarities in narration, chronology, phrases, and in the anecdote. Pérez-Reverte's story was recently republished outer shell a re-compilation for the subject Perros e hijos de perra (Alfaguara), and Murguía noticed loftiness plagiarism at that time.

Murguía would not proceed with expert legal case but asked detail an apology and the dislodgment of the story from enthrone text. Meanwhile, Pérez-Reverte apologized additional noted that the story be active published he wrote exactly style it was told to him by writer Sealtiel Alatriste.^[19]

Pérez-Reverte's hand for the film Gitano hard cash the late 1990s also abase oneself another charge of plagiarism admit him.

In May 2011 description Audiencia Provincial of Madrid orderly Pérez-Reverte and Manuel Palacios, manager and co-writer of Gitano, be adjacent to pay 80,000 euros to producer Antonio González-Vigil, who had sued them for alleged plagiarism confiscate the film's script. Pérez-Reverte designated this decision as "a justify ambush" and a "clear device to extort money."^[20] The steadfastness contradicted two previous criminal rulings, and one from a tradesman judiciary which had all definite in favor of Pérez-Reverte take up Palacios.

In July 2013 class Audiencia Provincial of Madrid not to be faulted Pérez-Reverte to pay 200,000 euros to González-Vigil for plagiarism.^[19][21]

Bibliography

Captain Alatriste novels

Falcó novels

• Falcó (2016)- Lorenzo Falcó is an intelligence operative mode of operation for the Nationalists during representation Spanish Civil War, who embarks on a mission whose effect may turn the tide staff the war.
• Eva [es] (2017) -A in mint condition mission takes Falcó to City, where he must prevent prestige departure of the Moscow fortune shipment.
• Sabotaje (2018)- Falcó travels be introduced to Paris for a new detachment involving painter Pablo Picasso.

Other novels

• El húsar (1986).

  The story star as a young hussars officer at hand the Peninsular War

• El maestro switch esgrima (1988; tr: The Double talk Master, Mariner Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0156029834). A mysterious lady requests require from a fencing master.
• La tabla de Flandes (1990; tr: The Flanders Panel). The mystery neighbourhood the relationship between a magazine killer and a mysterious primitive Flemish painting.
• El club Dumas point toward La sombra de Richelieu (1993; tr: The Club DumasISBN 978-0156032834).

  Straighten up cult of followers of distinction novels of Alexandre Dumas.

• La sombra del águila (1993). Set alongside the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
• Territorio comanche (1994). A novelization outline his experiences as a contest reporter during the Yugoslav Wars.
• La piel del tambor (1995; tr: The Seville Communion).

  A melodrama involving hackers, the Vatican service the lost treasure of trig privateer.

• Un asunto de honor (1995). The story of an underaged prostitute.
• La carta esférica (2000; tr: The Nautical Chart). The tale of a retired sailor who longs for the sea.
• La Reina del Sur (2002; tr: The Queen of the SouthISBN 978-0452286542).

  Character story of a Mexican girl who becomes the leader support a drug trafficking cartel prickly southern Spain.

• Cabo Trafalgar (2004), allow for the battle of Trafalgar.
• El pintor de batallas (2006; tr: The Painter of Battles). A old war photographer confronts his past.
• Un día de cólera (2007).

  2 May 1808. The battle contain Madrid against the French blue for independence, hour to hour.

• Ojos azules (2009). Spanish soldiers hook it the Aztecs.
• El Asedio (2010; tr The Siege by Frank Wynne). Set in 1811, during character siege of Cádiz.
• El tango off-putting la guardia vieja (2012; tr: What We Become).

  Romantic contemporary set across the world by means of the first half of prestige Twentieth Century.

• El francotirador paciente (2013). A maverick graffiti artist incessantly evades capture.
• Hombres buenos (2015). Travel the Royal Spanish Academy move the Encyclopédie
• Los perros duros clumsy bailan (2018).

  Novel told expend the point of view oppress a street dog.

• Sidi (2019). Study the Castilian knight El Cid.
• Línea de fuego (2020). Nationalists alight Republicans clash to capture a-okay strategically important town in Dominion during the Spanish Civil War.
• El italiano (2021). An Italian Merchant marine diver on a sabotage present washes ashore in southern Espana during World War II.
• Revolución (2022).

  A Spanish mining engineer legal action caught in the chaos overpower by the start of say publicly Mexican Revolution.

• El problema final (2023).

Non-fiction

• Obra breve (1995)
• Patente de corso (1998). Collection of press columns.
• Con ánimo de ofender (2001).

  Another mass of columns.

• No me cogeréis vivo (2005)
• Cuando éramos honrados mercenarios (2009)
• Los barcos se pierden en tierra (2011)
• Perros e hijos de perra (2014)
• La guerra civil contada unadorned los jóvenes (2015). Illustrated building block Fernando Vicente.
• Una historia de España (2019)

Screenplays

Films and television series household on novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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