Authors - F

  • Francesco Tonucci

    Francesco Tonucci is a researcher at the Institute for Cognition Science and Technology of the Italian National Center for Research (CNR) in Rome. His professional activity has been aimed at studying the thinking and behaviour of children, in family, school and city environments. From 1997 to 1999 he chaired the Committee TV-children. Renowned illustrator, he signs his cartoons as FRATO. Among his books are to be highlighted Con ojos de niño (1987), La soledad del niño (1994) y La ciudad de los niños: un modo nuevo de pensar la ciudad (1996).

  • Francisco Alonso-Fernández

    Emeritus Professor of psychiatry and medical psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid. An academic at the Royal National Academy of Medicine, director of the Instituto de Psiquiatras de Lenguas Española and president of the European Association with Social Psychiatry. Honorary Professor at the universities of Mexico City, Lima, Havana and Carabobo (Venezuela),  and Doctor Honoris Causa at the universities of Montevideo, Santo Domingo and Maimónides (Buenos Aires).

     

  • Francisco Cruces Villalobos

    Francisco Cruces Villalobos is a professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, UNED (Spain). Previously he has taught ethnomusicology at the University of Salamanca. He has been visiting fellow at The University of Chicago (USA), UAM-I (México) and Universidad del Valle (Colombia).

     

  • Francisco de Quevedo

    Francisco de Quevedo (madrid, 1580 - Villanueva de los Infantes, 1645), with his vast culture and noble lineage, is one of the most ingenious writers of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an ambassador in the Italy of Humanism, Gentleman of the Torre de Juan Abad and Gentleman of the Order de Santiago. Notably influenced by Greco-Latin literature and Stoic philosophy, he cultivated Lucianesque satire, wrote political treatises for the kings' regime, theological-moral works, poetry and drama.

  • Francisco Díaz Valladares

    Francisco Díaz Valladares was born in the village of Villamanrique de la Condesa near Seville.

  • Francisco Fernández Beltrán

    Francisco Fernández Beltrán is a journalist and writer. As a Doctor of Business and Institutional Communication, he has, since 1998, held the post of head of Communication and Publication Services at the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, and teaches on a number of Masters and postgraduate courses. He is co-author of nine books on various aspects of communications management and has also contributed to two books in the noir genre. He is the father of two chiildren, now 7 and 4 years of age.

     

  • Francisco Gímenez Gracia

    Francisco Giménez Gracia was born in 1961 in Madrid. Since 1989 he has lived in Murcia, where he makes the teaching of philosophy compatible with writing. In 1997 he was a finalist for the II Vargas Llosa Novel Award with “Sacristanes y proxenetas”.

     

  • Francisco González Ledesma

    Ledesma studied law and practised as a lawyer for several years combining this with writing. From an early age he wrote short stories for comics and, later on, Western novels under the pseudonym Silver Kane. For his first two novels he used the pseudonym Enrique Muriel. He has worked as a journalist on El Correo de Catalunya and later on La Vanguardia, where he ultimately became editor-in-chief.