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Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. Born in Cartagena, Spain. He worked as war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalist career writing for the now extinct newspaper Pueblo and then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television), often as a war correspondent. His first novel was released in 1986.

He is now a member of the Real Academia Española, a position he holds since June 12, 2003.

His novels are usually centered on one strongly defined character (male or female), and exhibit the author's Hemingway-like ability to build layers of complexity around each person. Plot moves along swiftly but not so fast as to make the reader lose contact with the place and time and the writer often employs the services of a narrator who is somehow a part of the story but apart from it.

The majority of action usually takes place in Spain or around the Mediterranean, and often draws on numerous references to Spanish history, colonial past, art and culture, ancient treasures and the sea. The novels frequently deal with some of major issues of modern times such as drug trafficking or the relationship of religion and politics, as well as timeless themes of morality and ethics, love and lust and power and money, though never in a simplistic fashion - recognising that there is usually more than one way to interpret a situation and the lines between right and wrong are often blurred beyond recognition.

Selected bibliography in English

• The Fencing Master (1988)
• The Flanders Panel (1990)
• The Club Dumas (1993)
• The Seville Communion (1995)
• Captain Alatriste (1996)
• The Nautical Chart (2000)
• The Queen of the South (2002)

Films based on novels by Pérez-Reverte

• El maestro de esgrima (1992) (based on The Fencing Master)
• Uncovered (1994) (based on The Flanders Panel)
• Cachito (1995) (based on Un Asunto de Honor)
• Territorio Comanche (1997) (homonymous novel)
• The Ninth Gate, by Roman Polanski (1999) (based on The Club Dumas but which takes a lot of liberties with the original plot of the book)
• Alatriste (2005) (based on the series Captain Alatriste)

External links

• Official Website
• Official Website (in Spanish)

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