Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Place: Valencia

Born: 1867

Death: 1928

Biography:

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a Spanish journalist, politician, and novelist. He was born in Valencia, Spain in 1867 and died in Menton, France in 1928. He was a 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. He was a particular fan of Miguel de Cervantes and was a militant Republican partisan in his youth. He founded the newspaper El Pueblo in his hometown, in which he developed a Republican populist political movement known as Blasquismo. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes and was known for his love affairs and political activism. He was also a volunteer as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tángere.