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José Miguel Vilar-Bou
José Miguel Vilar-Bou (born April 5, 1979, Alfafar, Valencia) is a contemporary Spanish novelist, short story writer, and journalist, specializing in horror fiction, science-fiction and fantasy. His work has been awarded with several prizes in literary competitions. His novel ''Alarido de Dios'' 'The Cry of God''was a finalist for the Awards Celsius 2010 and his short story "El laberinto de la araña" The Spider's Labyrinth"received in the same year the Nocte Award for the best Spanish horror story. In the Spanish ''Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo'' 'Natural History of the Weird Tales'' because of the "expeditious and accurate in its proposal", critic José L. Fernández Arellano mentioned this author's story "La luz encendida" as leading among the young writers' of the genre of horror in Spain. Biography Vilar-Bou has lived in Italy, Belgium, Serbia, and London. As a journalist he has worked for several magazines and media, especially in the fields of events and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia (Spain)
Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (river), Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities, third-most populated municipality in the country, with 825,948 inhabitants. The urban area of Valencia has 1.5 million people while the metropolitan region has 2.5 million. Valencia was founded as a Roman Republic, Roman colony in 138 BC as '. As an autonomous city in late antiquity, its militarization followed the onset of the threat posed by the Spania, Byzantine presence to the South, together with effective integration to the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in the late 6th century. Al-Andalus, Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Fernández Cubas
Cristina Fernández Cubas ( Arenys de Mar, Barcelona province, 1945) is a Spanish writer and journalist. She has been described as "one of the most important writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship" and has been credited with inaugurating "a renaissance in the short story genre in Spain." Biography and literary career Fernández Cubas studied Law and Journalism at the University of Barcelona, where she met the writer Carlos Trías Sagnier, whom she later married.. They have travelled extensively, and lived in many different cities, including Cairo, Lima, Buenos Aires, Paris and Berlin. Fernández Cubas practised journalism from an early age and published her first collection of short stories, ''Mi hermana Elba'', in 1980. This was followed by ''Los altillos de Brumal'' (1983), ''El ángulo del horror'' (1990), ''Con Ágatha en Estambul'' (1994), and ''Parientes pobres del diablo'' (2006), which won the Setenil Award in the same year. In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Carlos Somoza
José Carlos Somoza Ortega (born 13 November 1959) is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel ''The Cave of Ideas'' obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life. Works *''Planos'' (1994) *''El silencio de Blanca'' (1996) *''Miguel Will'' (1997) (play) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Care Santos
Macarena Santos i Torres, (born 8 April 1970) is a Spanish writer who writes under the name "Care Santos". She writes in both Catalan and Spanish languages, for both young and adult readers. Biography Care Santos studied law and Spanish in france philology at the University of Barcelona. She started her career as a journalist at '' Diari de Barcelona'' and later worked for the papers ''ABC'' and '' El Mundo''. In 1995, Santos was recognized for her first book, a collection of novels with the title ''Cuentos cítricos''. Her next books were ''Trigal con cuervos'' and ''Los ojos del lobo''. Awards and honors * In 2007, her book ''Dissection'' received the Carmen Conde Women's Poetry Award, * She was nominated for a for ''La muerte de Venus''. The latter book was translated into several languages. * In 2013, she won the Joaquim Ruyra Award for best youth book for her work ''No em preguntis qui. sóc.'' * On 20 January 2014, Care Santos was awarded the Premi de les Lletres Catal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norberto Luis Romero
Norberto may refer to: *Norberto Alonso (born 1953), former Argentine football midfielder * Norberto Araujo (born 1978), Argentine football central defender *Norberto Aroldi (1932–1978), Argentine film actor and screenwriter *Norberto Barba (born 1963), American cinematographer and film director *Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004), Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought * Norberto Bocchi (born 1961), Italian bridge player * Norberto Bravo (born 1970), professional boxer * Norberto Ceresole (1943–2003), Argentine sociologist and political scientist *Norberto Collado Abreu (1921–2008), the Cuban captain of the yacht which ferried Fidel Castro and 81 supporters to Cuba from Mexico in 1956 *Norberto Costa Alegre (born 1951), former prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe *Norberto Doroteo Méndez (1923–1998), former Argentine football striker *Norberto Esbrez (born 1966), Argentinian tango dancer, choreographer, and teacher *Norberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc R
Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and eastern West Virginia * MARC (archive), a computer-related mailing list archive * M/A/R/C Research, a marketing research and consulting firm * Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, a non-profit, volunteer organization * Matador Automatic Radar Control, a guidance system for the Martin MGM-1 Matador cruise missile * Mid-America Regional Council, the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the bistate Kansas City region * Midwest Association for Race Cars, a former American stock car racing organization * Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry (''Movimiento Agrario Revolucionario del Campesinado Boliviano''), a defunct right-wing political moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Puente (writer)
Miguel Antonio Puente Aguilar (born May 8, 1948) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. The right-hander was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent before the 1968 season, and he played for the Giants in 1970. Career Puente's major league career lasted for about four weeks, starting four games and relieving in two others during the month of May. He did not perform well overall, giving up 36 baserunners (25 hits and 11 walks) and 17 earned runs in just 18.2 innings. He did, however, pitch one great game. On May 8, 1970, he pitched a seven-hit complete game against the World Champion New York Mets, winning 7–1 at Shea Stadium in front of a big crowd of 43,109. Season and career totals include a 1–3 record, 14 strikeouts, 1 game finished, and an ERA An era is a span of time. Era or ERA may also refer to: * Era (geology), a subdivision of geologic time * Calendar era Education * Academy of European Law (German: '), an international l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan José Plans
Juan José Plans Martínez (February 28, 1943, Gijón, Asturias - February 24, 2014, Gijón, Asturias) was a Spanish writer, journalist, and radio and television announcer. He specialized as a writer in fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and published several collections of short stories and several radio and TV adaptations of classics in these genres. He was the author of nearly forty books and is on over thirty national and international anthologies, which have been translated into Portuguese, Polish, French, Russian and English. His novel (roughly meaning ''Children's Game'') has been adapted for film twice: first as Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's '' Who Can Kill a Child?'' and later as '' Come Out and Play'' by Makinov. Of the ''asociación jovellanista'', he has written biographies of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Alejandro Casona. He was the father of painter Edgar Plans Pérez (b. 1977, in Madrid) who is author of the 2009 ''Feria Internacional de Muestras de Asturias' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilar Pedraza
Pilar Pedraza Martínez (born 12 October 1951) is a Spanish professor and writer. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay. Biography After earning her doctorate in history at the University of Valencia, Pilar Pedraza has been teaching Film and Avant-garde film, avant-garde cinema there since 1982. She was Councilor of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana from 1993 to 1995, during the last term of Joan Lerma, and member of the Board of Directors of Radiotelevisió Valenciana, RTVV. Throughout her career, she has combined teaching and research with literary creation. Writing Narrative Pilar Pedraza's stories and novels present disturbing characters and environments, in which the sinister presence of the supernatural (dead that return to life, demons, enchanted objects) is associated with madness, death, and Sadomasochism, sadomasochistic pleasure. This theme, which dominates her first novel, ''Las joyas de la serpiente'' (1984), undergoes a gradual stylization in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Palma
Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain * St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. * Felix, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada * St. Felix, South Tyrol, a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy. * Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County * Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois * Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa Music * Felix (band), a British band * Felix (musician), British DJ * Felix (rapper) (born 2000), Australian rapper and member of the K-pop boy band Stray Kids * Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc Business * Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries * AB Felix, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Olgoso
Angel is a given name meaning "angel", "messenger". In the English-speaking world Angel is used for both boys and girls. From the medieval Latin masculine name ''Angelus'', which was derived from the name of the heavenly creature (itself derived from the Ancient Greek word ἄγγελος (''angelos'') meaning "messenger"). It is gradually gaining popularity in the English-speaking world, where it is sometimes used as a feminine given name in modern times. In the United States, it is also seeing increasing use among boys, usually using the standard English pronunciation of the word angel. Ángel (pronounced /ˈanxel/) is a common male name in Spanish-speaking countries. Variations * Albanian: Engjëll, Ankelo, Anxhelo * Asturian: Ánxel, Ánxelu, Xelu (short) * Bulgarian: Ангел (''Angel'') (masc.), Ангелина (''Angelina'') (fem.) * Croatian: Anđeo, Anđelko (masc.); Anđela, Anđelka (fem.) * French: Ange (masc.), Angèl (masc.), Angèle (fem.), Angélique (fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Luengo
Lorenzo may refer to: People * Lorenzo (name) Places Peru * San Lorenzo Island (Peru), sometimes referred to as the island of Lorenzo United States * Lorenzo, Illinois * Lorenzo, Texas * San Lorenzo, California, formerly Lorenzo * Lorenzo State Historic Site, house in New York State listed on the National Register of Historic Places Art, entertainment, and media ;Films and television * ''Lorenzo'' (film), an animated short film * ''Lorenzo's Oil'', a film based on a true story about a boy suffering from Adrenoleukodystrophy and his parents' journey to find a treatment. * ''Lorenzo's Time'', a 2012 Philippine TV series that aired on ABS-CBN ;Music *Lorenzo (rapper), French rapper * "Lorenzo", a 1996 song by Phil Collins Other uses * List of storms named Lorenzo * Lorenzo (electronic health record), used at some NHS trusts in the United Kingdom See also * San Lorenzo (other) * De Lorenzo * di Lorenzo * Lorenzen (other) Lorenzen may refer to People *Lorenzen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
