Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

1867 - 1928

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: literary realism

genre: novel

country of citizenship: Spain

languages spoken, written or signed: Catalan, Spanish

educated at: University of Valencia

occupation: writer, politician, journalist, film director, novelist, screenwriter, lawyer, poet

position held: Member of the Congress of Deputies

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente ˈβlaskojˈβaɲeθ], 29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician and bestselling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films that were adapted from his works. Source: Wikipedia (en)