Blasco Ibáñez

[ blah-skaw ee-vah-nyeth, -nyes ]

noun

1. Vi·cen·te [bee-, then, -te, -, sen, -], 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, journalist, and politician.

Blasco Ibáñez

/ ˈblasko iˈβaɲeθ /

noun

1. Blasco IbáñezVicente18671928MSpanishWRITING: novelist Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)

Example Sentences

In its place, the activists put up a plaque reading “ Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Plaza,” the square’s previous name, which honored the Spanish novelist who wrote “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

From Wall Street Journal

"It was among the Arabs of Spain that the knightly spirit arose, and which was afterwards appropriated by the warriors of the North, as if it was a quality inherent in Christian nations," declares the celebrated Spanish writer Blasco Ibanez, in his novel: Dans L'Ombre de la Cath�drale.

From Project Gutenberg

Vicente Blasco Ibanez is the most brilliant author of the modern school of Spanish fiction, and in this daring novel he is probably seen at his best.

From Project Gutenberg

As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, describes Kerensky thus: Slender, exotic, interesting, and of an original ugliness�"ugly as only Russians are ugly."

From Time Magazine Archive