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- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1867-1928). Spanish novelist and political activist Vicente Blasco Ibanez gained international fame for his novels about World War I, particularly Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916; published in English as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1918). Blasco Ibanez also wrote Sangre y arena (1909; Blood and Sand, 1922), which later became a major Hollywood movie, and many other novels. He was associated with the Generation of 1898, a group of Spanish writers who sought to restore national pride after the Spanish-American War.