Author: Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Born: 11 October 1936
Bio: 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.*