Héctor Vázquez-Azpiri

Hector Vázquez-Azpiri, Spanish writer, born in Oviedo in 1931. He was a very prominent author during the fifties and sixties, although his march Mexico in the seventies made him disappear some of the national cultural areas to end of the sixties, continues publishing until today. Biography

Despite being born in Oviedo, he studied high school in the city of Gijón, in the College of the Immaculate, of the Jesuits. He returned to his hometown to pursue a university degree in Philosophy and Letters, a degree he obtained on horseback between his native Oviedo and Madrid. In 1951 has a traumatic experience when being kidnapped in the Asturian town of Llanes, by the bandolero Bernabé. Years later this experience will be collected in his first novel Viper, which will be a finalist of the prestigious Nadal Prize in 1955. Ten years went from his first novel to his second novel, La arrancada, in 1965. That same year he would publish a new novel, La Navaja, and two years later in 1967 with his fourth novel he obtains the Prize Alfaguara of Novel with Fauna. In the decade of years 70 was in Mexico, granted by Foundation Juan March. During the seventies, one goes to the historical novel with titles like De Alfonso XIII to the prince of Spain of 1973 or The cure Merino, The Regicide of 1974, among other publications. During the 1980s he did not publish any novels and the next work of his that sees the light is of 1994. He married a granddaughter of Bertrand Russell, with whom he had three children, one of them is a prestigious lawyer in the United States. / p> Works

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