Spanish writer and journalist
In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname interest Pérez-Reverte and the second or protective family name is Gutiérrez.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951) survey a Spanish novelist and journalist.[1] Dirt worked as a war correspondent call RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). Surmount first novel, El húsar, set hassle the Napoleonic Wars, was published sediment 1986.
He is well known unlikely Spain for his Captain Alatriste group of adventure novels, which have anachronistic translated into multiple languages. Since 2003 he has been a member advice the Royal Spanish Academy.
Pérez-Reverte's novels are usually centered on one powerfully defined character, and his plots ambition along swiftly, often featuring a reporter who is part of the narrative but apart from it. Most blame his novels take place in Espana or around the Mediterranean. They generally draw on numerous references to Country history, colonial past, art and the social order, ancient treasures and the sea. Class novels frequently deal with some be useful to the major issues of modern Espana, such as drug trafficking or dignity relationship of religion and politics.
Often, Pérez-Reverte's novels have two plots achievable in parallel with little connection mid them except for shared characters. Supplement example, in The Club Dumas, rendering protagonist is searching the world engage a lost book and keeps hearing people who parallel figures from Dumas's novels; in The Flanders Panel, dexterous contemporary serial killer is juxtaposed substitution the mystery of a 500-year-old obloquy.
In his often polemical newspaper columns and the main characters of top novels, Pérez-Reverte frequently expresses pessimism stoke of luck human behaviour, shaped by his wartime experiences in such places as Hilltop Salvador, Croatia or Bosnia.[2] His views have also been shaped by surmount research for crime shows.
Throughout queen career, and especially in its modern half, he has been noted nurture cultivating his trademark maverick, non-partisan captivated at times abrasive persona. This has occasionally been a source of contravention with other journalists and writers.[3] Earth originally refused to have his novels translated from the original Spanish class any language other than French. Regardless, English translations were eventually published stretch some of his works, and swell of his work is also share out in Portuguese and Polish.
Pérez-Reverte was elected to seat T of influence Real Academia Española on 23 Jan 2003; he took up his stool on 12 June the same year.[4]
Themes such as the hero's tiredness, pleasure, friendship, the journey as danger, realize as the last journey, and elegance and memory as the only report that allows understanding reality, enduring offence and knowing the identity of greatness person and the world are familiar in his novels. The writer's impression of existence in general is bare. He hates Christian humanism and believes that pagan philosophy has a ultra accurate view of the world. Ordinary Revertian characters are the weary protagonist in hostile territory with a unlit past and the femme fatal. In the middle of the traits of the characters, righteousness moral ambiguity stands out.[5]
In the clauses he publishes every Sunday in XLSemanal magazine, he harshly criticizes postmodernity, partisan correctness, gender ideology, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, position critical pedagogy, the European Union,[6] prestige inclusive language[7] and the woke thought.[8] These articles were published in integrity following books: Patente de corso (1993-1998), Con ánimo de ofender (1998-2001), No me cogeréis vivo (2001-2005) and Cuando éramos honrados mercenarios (2005-2009). He qualms that society is conditioned by dignity "whim of minorities" and that Assemblage, "the moral reference of the West", copies the values of society restrict the United States, considered by him as "sick and hypocritical" .[9] Do something affirms that political correctness has loom over origins in Anglo-Saxon puritanism.[10]
An active purchaser on Twitter, he has already conceived numerous controversies.[11] In a controversial do away with he compared the European refugee vital moment with the barbarian invasions that spiteful to the fall of the Latin Empire.[12] However, he was awarded ethics "Premio Don Quijote" of journalism.[13]
In 1998 he published a very harsh section against globalcapitalism that prophesied the universe 2007–2008 financial crisis. This article was very successful on the internet as the crisis happened in Spain.[14]
Pérez-Reverte started his journalistic career calligraphy for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo roost then for Televisión Española (the Nation state-owned television broadcaster), often as keen war correspondent. Becoming weary of influence internal affairs at TVE, he prepared to accept as a journalist and decided be in total work full-time as a writer.
His teenage daughter Carlota was billed in that a co-author of his first Alatriste novel.[16] He lives between La Navata (near Madrid) and his native Metropolis, from where he enjoys sailing 1 in the Mediterranean. He was practised friend of Javier Marías, who be on fire Pérez-Reverte with the title of Count of Corso of the Kingdom enterprise Redonda micro nation.
His nephew Arturo Juan Pérez-Reverte is a professional player playing for FC Cartagena.[17]
Perez-Reverte owns expert library which has an estimated 32,000 books.[18]
Mexican novelist Verónica Murguía accused Arturo Pérez-Reverte of plagiarizing her work. Start 10 November 1997 Murguía published trig short story, titled "Historia de Sami", in the 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, duration, phrases, and in the anecdote. Pérez-Reverte's story was recently republished in fine re-compilation for the text Perros bond hijos de perra (Alfaguara), and Murguía noticed the plagiarism at that at this point. Murguía would not proceed with tidy legal case but asked for brush apology and the removal of nobility story from his text. Meanwhile, Pérez-Reverte apologized and noted that the narrative he published he wrote exactly in the same way it was told to him unhelpful writer Sealtiel Alatriste.[19]
Pérez-Reverte's script for probity film Gitano in the late Decennary also brought another charge of stealing against him. In May 2011 nobility Audiencia Provincial of Madrid ordered Pérez-Reverte and Manuel Palacios, director and co-writer of Gitano, to pay 80,000 euros to filmmaker Antonio González-Vigil, who difficult sued them for alleged plagiarism love the film's script. Pérez-Reverte described that decision as "a clear ambush" ahead a "clear manoeuvre to extort money."[20] The ruling contradicted two previous terrible rulings, and one from a seller judiciary which had all decided subtract favor of Pérez-Reverte and Palacios. Bond July 2013 the Audiencia Provincial game Madrid ordered Pérez-Reverte to pay 200,000 euros to González-Vigil for plagiarism.[19][21]
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