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Vicente Molina Foix | |
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| Born | 18 October 1946 Elche, Spain |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | spanish |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Vicente Molina Foix (born 18 October 1946) is a Spanish writer and film director. [1]
Born in Elche in 1946, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid and at the University of London. [2] He taught Spanish literature at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 1979. [3] 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. [4] 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 Luis de Pablo in 1990, [5] and has contributed to the national newspaper El País 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. [6]
He has openly supported homosexuals and people with HIV; he is one of the only Spanish intellectuals to do so. [7]
He is openly homosexual and much of his work draws on his gay experience. [8] 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.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights in Spain rank among the highest in the world, having undergone significant advancements within recent decades. Among ancient Romans in Spain, sexual interaction between men was viewed as commonplace, but a law against homosexuality was promulgated by Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans, and Roman moral norms underwent significant changes leading up to the 4th century. Laws against sodomy were later established during the legislative period. They were first repealed from the Spanish Code in 1822, but changed again along with societal attitudes towards homosexuality during the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco's regime.
Luis de Pablo Costales was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named the Generación del 51. Mostly self-taught as a composer and influenced by Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he co-founded ensembles for contemporary music, and organised concert series for it in Madrid. He published translations of notable texts about composers of the Second Viennese School, such as Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt's biography of Arnold Schoenberg and the publications of Anton Webern. He wrote music in many genres, including film scores such as Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive, and operas including La señorita Cristina. He taught composition not only in Spain, but also in the U.S. and Canada. Among his awards is the Premio Nacional de Música.
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Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Novísimos - translated as the "Newest Ones" - were a poetic group in Spain who took their name from an anthology in which the Catalan critic Josep Maria Castellet gathered the work of the majority of the youngest and most experimental poets in the decade of the 1970s: Nueve novísimos poetas españoles, Barcelona, 1970. Nevertheless, they were often referred to as the "venecianos" (Venetians), in allusion to one of the poems in the anthology, Oda a Venecia ante el mar de los teatros by Pere Gimferrer.
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The 30th Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on February 6, 2016 to honour the best in Spanish films of 2015. Actor and comedian Dani Rovira was the master of ceremonies for the second time in a row.
Leopoldo Alas Mínguez was a Spanish writer, poet and editor. He was the grand nephew of Leopoldo Alas "Clarin".
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. After its closure in 1992, Signos turned into an editorial for contemporary Spanish poetry.
Antonio Soler is a Spanish novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
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The Water is a 2022 internationally co-produced drama film with magic realism elements directed by Elena López Riera in her directorial debut feature which stars Luna Pamies, Bárbara Lennie and Nieve de Medina. It is a joint Swiss-Spanish-French production.
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