Vicente Molina Foix (born 18 October 1946) is a Spanish writer and

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Biography

Born in Elche in 1946, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid and at the University of London. He taught Spanish literature at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 1979. He drew the attention of critics as a young poet, and was included in a famous 1970 anthology (see Novisimos) of new Spanish poetry by the author José María Castellet. ''New Cinema in Spain'' was an account of Spanish cinema from the 2nd World War until 1976. He met with equal success as a writer of prose fiction and non-fiction, winning the Premio Barral in 1973 for his second novel ''Busto''. He wrote the libretto for the opera ''El viajero indiscreto'' by the Spanish composer

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in 1990, and has contributed to the national newspaper ''

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'' and the magazine '' Fotogramas''. In 2001, he turned to directing films. His two feature films till date are '' Sagitario (film)'' (2001), starring Ángela Molina and Eusebio Poncela, and ''El dios de madera'' (2010). He was selected by Stanley Kubrick to translate his scripts.

Homosexuality

He has openly supported homosexuals and people with HIV; he is one of the only Spanish intellectuals to do so.

Homosexual themes in writing

He is openly

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and much of his work draws on his gay experience. They are central themes in his two-part narrative ''La comunión de los atletas'' and ''Los Ladrones de niños.'' In that narrative, he combines homosexuality and pedophilia.

Selected works. Novels

* ''Busto'' - awarded the Premio Barral 1973 * ''Los padres viudos'' - Premio Azorín 1983 * ''La quincena soviética'' -

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1988 * La comunión de los atletas 1989 * La misa de Baroja (1995) * ''La mujer sin cabeza.'' 1997 * ''El vampiro de la calle México'' - Premio Alfonso García Ramos 2002 * ''El abrecartas'' -

Premio Nacional de Narrativa The National Literature Prize for Narrative (Spanish: ''Premio Nacional de Literatura en la modalidad de Narrativa'') is a prize awarded by Spain's Ministry of Culture for a novel written by a Spanish author in any of the languages of Spain. The ...

2007 * ''El invitado amargo'' 2014,with

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Poetry

* ''Los espías del realista'', Ediciones Península, Edicions 62, Barcelona, 1970. * ''Vanas penas de amor'', Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 1998. * ''La musa furtiva'', poesía reunida 1967-2012, Vandalia, Fundación José Manuel Lara, Sevilla, 2012. * ''Antinoo ciego'', with Leopoldo Alas and other poetry for

Signos Magazine ''Signos Magazine'' was a Spanish magazine of poetry founded 1986 by Leopoldo Alas Minguez, Luis Cremades, Mario Miguez and Daniel Garbade. Edited first by ''Ediciones Libertarias'' and later ''El Observatorio'', it was directed by Leopoldo Alas. ...

1989

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Molina Foix, Vicente 1946 births Living people Spanish film directors Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists Spanish essayists Spanish LGBT novelists Spanish gay writers Male essayists 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish poets Spanish male poets People from Elche 20th-century essayists