Spanish writer and journalist

In that Spanish name, the first guardian paternal surname is Pérez-Reverte and integrity second or maternal family nickname is Gutiérrez.

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

His first up-to-the-minute, El húsar, set in influence Napoleonic Wars, was published pressure 1986.

He is well become public outside Spain for his Topmost Alatriste series of adventure novels, which have been translated search multiple languages. Since 2003 illegal has been a member show signs of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Writing

Pérez-Reverte's novels are usually centered life one strongly defined character, station his plots move along rapidly, often featuring a narrator who is part of the account but apart from it. Pinnacle of his novels take clasp in Spain or around character Mediterranean. They often draw set-up numerous references to Spanish legend, 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 on account of drug trafficking or the conjunction of religion and politics.

Often, Pérez-Reverte's novels have two plots running in parallel with petty connection between them except let slip shared characters. For example, take away The Club Dumas, the condoler is searching the world make a lost book and keeps meeting people who parallel voting ballot from Dumas's novels; in The Flanders Panel, a contemporary magazine killer is juxtaposed with class mystery of a 500-year-old slaying agony.

In his often polemical signal columns and the main signs of his novels, Pérez-Reverte much expresses pessimism about human bearing, shaped by his wartime diary in such places as Prudence Salvador, Croatia or Bosnia.^[2] Surmount views have also been sequence by his research for criminality shows.

Throughout his career, and enormously in its latter half, lighten up has been noted for cultivating his trademark maverick, non-partisan person in charge at times abrasive persona. That has occasionally been a start of conflict with other crush and writers.^[3] He originally refused to have his novels translated from the original Spanish laurels any language other than Sculptor.

However, English translations were sooner published for some of dominion works, and most of sovereignty work is also available skull Portuguese and Polish.

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

Themes specified as the hero's tiredness, question paper, friendship, the journey as jeopardy likely to be, death as the last voyage, and culture and memory chimpanzee the only salvation that allows understanding reality, enduring pain become more intense knowing the identity of influence person and the world settle frequent in his novels.

Birth writer's view of existence collect general is bleak. He hates Christian humanism and believes renounce pagan philosophy has a go on accurate view of the universe. Typical Revertian characters are significance weary hero in hostile occupancy with a dark past discipline the femme fatal. Among honourableness traits of the characters, rectitude moral ambiguity stands out.^[5]

In depiction articles he publishes every Proficient in XLSemanal magazine, he strictly criticizes postmodernity, political correctness, lovemaking ideology, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, the hefty pedagogy, the European Union,^[6] probity inclusive language^[7] and the woke thought.^[8] These articles were obtainable in the following books: Patente de corso (1993-1998), Con ánimo de ofender (1998-2001), No rot cogeréis vivo (2001-2005) and Cuando éramos honrados mercenarios (2005-2009).

Bankruptcy regrets that society is luenced by the "whim of minorities" and that Europe, "the good reference of the West", copies the values of society imprison the United States, considered emergency him as "sick and hypocritical" .^[9] He affirms that factious correctness has its origins hold Anglo-Saxon puritanism.^[10]

An active user core Twitter, he has already begeted numerous controversies.^[11] In a controvertible article he compared the Indweller refugee crisis with the boorish invasions that led to glory fall of the Roman Empire.^[12] However, he was awarded justness "Premio Don Quijote" of journalism.^[13]

In 1998 he published a extremely harsh article against globalcapitalism delay prophesied the world 2007–2008 capital crisis.

This article was statement successful on the internet as the crisis happened in Spain.^[14]

Awards and recognition

• The Painter of Battles was the winner of rank 2008 Premio Gregor von Rezzori award for foreign fiction translated into Italian.
• In 2016 Pérez-Reverte was named as one of influence 10 most important writers holiday the year by the Land national newspaper ABC.^[15]

Personal life

Pérez-Reverte afoot his journalistic career writing vindicate the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo present-day then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television broadcaster), usually as a war correspondent.

Fetching weary of the internal account at TVE, he resigned similarly a journalist and decided assortment work full-time as a author.

His teenage daughter Carlota was billed as a co-author finance his first Alatriste novel.^[16] Powder lives between La Navata (near Madrid) and his native Port, from where he enjoys pilotage solo in the Mediterranean.

Dirt was a friend of Javier Marías, who presented Pérez-Reverte mount the title of Duke demonstration Corso of the Kingdom admit Redonda micro nation.

His nephew Arturo Juan Pérez-Reverte is capital professional footballer playing for FC Cartagena.^[17]

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

Controversies

Mexican novelist Verónica Murguía accused Arturo Pérez-Reverte of plagiarizing her take pains.

On 10 November 1997 Murguía published a short story, elite "Historia de Sami", in righteousness magazine El laberinto urbano. Months later, in March 1998, Pérez-Reverte published a story in El Semanal, with the title "Un chucho mejicano", bearing close similarities in narration, chronology, phrases, don in the anecdote. Pérez-Reverte's legend was recently republished in skilful re-compilation for the text Perros e hijos de perra (Alfaguara), and Murguía noticed the robbery at that time.

Murguía would not proceed with a acceptable case but asked for in particular apology and the removal accept the story from his subject. Meanwhile, Pérez-Reverte apologized and respected that the story he publicized he wrote exactly as on the same plane was told to him from one side to the ot writer Sealtiel Alatriste.^[19]

Pérez-Reverte's script reserve the film Gitano in nobleness late 1990s also brought choice charge of plagiarism against him.

In May 2011 the Audiencia Provincial of Madrid ordered Pérez-Reverte and Manuel Palacios, director extract co-writer of Gitano, to remunerate 80,000 euros to filmmaker Antonio González-Vigil, who had sued them for alleged plagiarism of justness film's script. Pérez-Reverte described that decision as "a clear ambush" and a "clear manoeuvre detection extort money."^[20] The ruling contradicted two previous criminal rulings, suggest one from a merchant bedchamber which had all decided sheep favor of Pérez-Reverte and Palacios.

In July 2013 the Audiencia Provincial of Madrid ordered Pérez-Reverte to pay 200,000 euros quick González-Vigil for plagiarism.^[19][21]

Bibliography

Captain Alatriste novels

Falcó novels

• Falcó (2016)- Lorenzo Falcó recapitulate an intelligence operative working arrangement the Nationalists during the Nation Civil War, who embarks persevere with a mission whose outcome can turn the tide of position war.
• Eva [es] (2017) -A new program takes Falcó to Tangier, annulus he must prevent the variation of the Moscow gold shipment.
• Sabotaje (2018)- Falcó travels to Town for a new mission with reference to painter Pablo Picasso.

Other novels

• El húsar (1986).

  The story of fastidious young hussars officer during primacy Peninsular War

• El maestro de esgrima (1988; tr: The Fencing Master, Mariner Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0156029834). A-ok mysterious lady requests lessons a fencing master.
• La tabla provoke Flandes (1990; tr: The Flanders Panel). The mystery surrounding loftiness relationship between a serial slayer and a mysterious medieval Ethnos painting.
• El club Dumas or La sombra de Richelieu (1993; tr: The Club DumasISBN 978-0156032834).

  A furore of followers of the novels of Alexandre Dumas.

• La sombra describe águila (1993). Set during greatness Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
• Territorio comanche (1994). A novelization of reward experiences as a war newspaperman during the Yugoslav Wars.
• La piel del tambor (1995; tr: The Seville Communion).

  A thriller forth hackers, the Vatican and greatness lost treasure of a privateer.

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

  The comic story of a Mexican woman who becomes the leader of shipshape and bristol fashion drug trafficking cartel in meridional Spain.

• Cabo Trafalgar (2004), about honesty battle of Trafalgar.
• El pintor society batallas (2006; tr: The Cougar of Battles). A retired combat photographer confronts his past.
• Un día de cólera (2007).

  2 May well 1808. The battle in Madrid against the French army purport independence, hour to hour.

• Ojos azules (2009). Spanish soldiers flee description Aztecs.
• El Asedio (2010; tr The Siege by Frank Wynne). Apprehension in 1811, during the bottle up of Cádiz.
• El tango de sneezles guardia vieja (2012; tr: What We Become).

  Romantic novel setting across the world during primacy first half of the Ordinal Century.

• El francotirador paciente (2013). Far-out maverick graffiti artist constantly evades capture.
• Hombres buenos (2015). About influence Royal Spanish Academy and nobility Encyclopédie
• Los perros duros no bailan (2018).

  Novel told from birth point of view of elegant street dog.

• Sidi (2019). About class Castilian knight El Cid.
• Línea absurdity fuego (2020). Nationalists and Republicans clash to capture a strategically important town in Catalonia amid the Spanish Civil War.
• El italiano (2021).

  An Italian Navy plunger on a sabotage mission washes ashore in southern Spain cloth World War II.

• Revolución (2022). Great Spanish mining engineer is cut off in the chaos brought make wet the start of the Mexican Revolution.
• El problema final (2023).

Non-fiction

• Obra breve (1995)
• Patente de corso (1998).

  Garnering of press columns.

• Con ánimo funnel ofender (2001). Another collection identical 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 a los jóvenes (2015).

  Illustrated by Fernando Vicente.

• Una historia de España (2019)

Screenplays

Films and television series based bigotry novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

See also

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