Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. Born in Cartagena, Spain. He worked as war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalist career writing for the now extinct newspaper Pueblo and then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television). His first novel was released in 1986.
He is now a member of the Real Academia Española, a position he holds since June 12, 2003.
Selected bibliography in English
- The Fencing Master (1988)
- The Flanders Panel (1990)
- The Club Dumas (1993)
- The Seville Communion (1995)
- Captain Alatriste (1996)
- The Nautical Chart (2000)
- The Queen of the South (2002)
Films based on novels by Pérez-Reverte
- El maestro de esgrima (1992) (based on The Fencing Master)
- Uncovered (1994) (based on The Flanders Panel)
- Cachito (1995) (based on Un Asunto de Honor)
- Territorio Comanche (1997) (homonymous novel)
- The Ninth Gate, by Roman Polanski (1999) (based on The Club Dumas)
- Alatriste (2005) (based on the series Captain Alatriste)
