Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte y Gutiérrez (born 1951) is one of the most famous contemporary Spanish writers. He worked as a war correspondent for the newspaper El Pueblo and for Spanish television. He covered the wars in Cyprus, Lebanon, Eritrea, the Sahara, the Falkland Islands, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chad, Libya, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola, the Persian Gulf, Croatia, Bosnia and other countries. His first novels, The Hussar and The Fencing Master, as well as many of his later works, are primarily about the historical past of Spain. He became world famous for his books The Flanders Panel and The Club Dumas, or the Shadow of Richelieu.
