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Spanish writer and film director (born 1946) In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Molina and the second or maternal family name is Foix.
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Vicente Molina Foix
Born18 October 1946
Elche, Spain
OccupationWriter
Languagespanish
NationalitySpanish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Vicente Molina Foix (born 18 October 1946) is a Spanish writer and film director.

Biography

Born in Elche in 1946, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid and at the University of London. He taught Spanish literature at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 1979. 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. 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, 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.

Homosexuality

He has openly supported homosexuals and people with HIV; he is one of the only Spanish intellectuals to do so.

Homosexual themes in writing

He is openly homosexual and much of his work draws on his gay experience. 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.

Selected works. Novels

Poetry

  • Los espías del realista, Ediciones Península, Edicions 62, Barcelona, 1970.
  • Vanas penas de amor, Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 1998.
  • La musa furtiva, poesía reunida 1967-2012, Vandalia, Fundación José Manuel Lara, Sevilla, 2012.
  • Antinoo ciego, with Leopoldo Alas and other poetry for Signos Magazine 1989

See also

References

  1. Bio
  2. Molina-Foix, V. (1977) New Cinema in Spain. London: British Film Institute; p. iv
  3. "Vicente Molina Foix. Biografía" [Vicente Molina Foix. Biography] (in Spanish). cervantes.es. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. Molina-Foix, V. (1977) New Cinema in Spain. London: British Film Institute
  5. "Luis de Pablo y Vicente Molina Foix armonizan diferencias en 'El viajero indiscreto'". El País (in Spanish). 1990-03-08. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  6. Molina Foix, Vicente (1980). "An interview with Kubrick By Vicente Molina Foix". Cinephilia & Beyond. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  7. Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History. London: Routledge. 2001. pp. 140–141. ISBN 9780415229746.
  8. Alfredo Martínez Expósito, «Vicente Molina Foix», in Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon (ed.), Routledge, 2001, p.141.
  9. Navarro Arisa, Juan José (1988-11-08). "Vicente Molina Foix gana el VI Premio Herralde con la obra 'La quincena soviética'". El Pais. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  10. Debicki, Andrew (1994). Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond. Kentucki: University press of Kentucki. p. 234. ISBN 0-8131-0835-7.

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