Arturo Perez-Reverte Spanish writer, author of detective and historical novels Date of Birth: 24.11.1951 Country: Spain

Biography of Arturo Perez-Reverte

Arturo Perez-Reverte is a modern Spanish writer, acclaimed for his detective novels and historical romances. He is a brilliant connoisseur of history and art, a master of elegant prose, and has captured the hearts of his readers with his captivating storylines. His writing is intricate, with unexpected twists and turns, blending mysteries from the past with the most pressing issues of the present.

Born on November 24, 1951, in Cartagena, Spain, Arturo Perez-Reverte developed a passion for underwater diving in his youth and is now an avid sailor, believing that true freedom begins ten miles away from the shore. He inherited his love for travel from his father and a library of five thousand volumes from his grandfather. As a child, he read all the adventure and classic literature within his reach, with his favorite hero being Robinson Crusoe. However, the writer now finds this character repugnant, stating, "What did Robinson Crusoe do when he met another person? He turned him into a servant."

Despite his erudition, Arturo was expelled from school for striking a priest. In the 1970s, he worked on an oil tanker and later became a journalist. As a war correspondent for the daily newspaper "Pueblo," he traveled to various African countries, including Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea. He was declared missing twice, first in the Sahara in 1975 and then in Eritrea in 1977. He worked as a military television correspondent for RTVE and reported from Cyprus, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chad, Lebanon, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola, the Persian Gulf, and Bosnia.

Later, Arturo Perez-Reverte shifted his focus primarily to fiction literature while still maintaining his role as a columnist, particularly for "El Semanal." He is known for his versatility, embodying the roles of a journalist, soldier, mystic, chess grandmaster, sailor, bookworm, aristocrat, hacker, pirate, detective, and adventurer. He does not play a role or wear masks; each of his books is a culmination of his own life experiences. This modern-day Don Quixote of Spanish literature is ready to fight against the windmills of banality for the miracle of elegant intrigue. He has absorbed the leisurely wisdom of the 20th century and imparts it to the computerized speeds of the 21st century.

Arturo Perez-Reverte's books are the territory of the new millennium, a postmodernist constructor, and a system of coordinates within human culture. He is a man of the Renaissance era, an eternal wanderer of literary seas who has coincidentally arrived on the shores of our time. His readers are fortunate as the writer knows countless captivating and chilling stories, both touching and absurd. He will tell us things that we ourselves cannot imagine because the geography of his imagination knows no boundaries, and he has the ability to narrate them.