Vicente Molina Foix

Vicente Molina Foix began his literary career with poetry, and in 1970 he was included in José María Castellet's anthology of nine new Spanish poets. That same year he published his first novel, Provincial Museum of Horrors, and then went on to write the scripts for Augusto Martínez Torres The Animal Spirit (1971) and War Courier (1972). His second novel, Bust, won the Barral Award in 1973, the first of many. Molina Foix is still writing novels, which include The Athletes' Communion and The Widowed Parents, which won the Azorín Award in 1983. He has also translated for theatre, including Hamlet, King Lear and The Merchant of Venice, and wrote the drama The Embrace of the Octopus in 1985. Since then he has worked as a film and television critic for Diario 16, El País and Fotogramas magazine.