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Agustín Martínez
Agustín Martínez (born 1975) is a Spanish noir fiction novelist and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2021 Premio Planeta for ''La Bestia'', written alongside Antonio Mercero and Jorge Díaz under the pen name Carmen Mola. Biography Born in 1975 in Lorca, Murcia, he studied Image and Sound at the Complutense University of Madrid. Initially dedicated to advertising, he began to write television series screenplays afterwards. His first novel, ''Monteperdido'', was published in 2015. It was followed by ''La mala hierba'' (2017). Both were published by , linked to Penguin Random House. Alongside Antonio Mercero and Jorge Díaz, he was one of the three authors closeted behind the Carmen Mola Carmen Mola is a Pseudonym#Literature, collective pseudonym of three Spanish writers of crime thrillers. The real authors are Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Santos Mercero, Antonio Mercero, best known as television scriptwriters. In ... pen name, known for a grim noir novel ...
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Noir Fiction
Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a subgenre of crime fiction. Definition Noir denotes a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence. While related to and frequently confused with Hardboiled, hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two are not the same. Both regularly take place against a backdrop of systemic and institutional corruption. However, noir (French for "black") fiction is centred on protagonists that are either victims, suspects, or perpetrators—often self-destructive. A typical protagonist of noir fiction is forced to deal with a corrupt legal, political or other system, through which the protagonist is either Symptoms of victimization, victimized and/or has to victimize others, leading to a No-win situation, lose-lose situation. Otto Penzler argues that the traditional hardboiled detective story and noir story are "dia ...
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Crematorio
''Crematorio'' () is a Spanish TV series written and directed by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. It is based on Rafael Chirbes's novel of the same name. It was produced by MOD Producciones for Canal+. Plot summary Crematorio is the story of the Bertomeus, a family that has managed to amass a great fortune over several generations. Rubén Bertomeu left agricultural businesses behind to create a business network that has made him the richest and most powerful man in Misent. Only in the family environment Rubén Bertomeu finds opposition to his way of understanding progress. Cast and characters Main cast *José Sancho is Rubén Bertomeu, a wealthy real estate developer heading a huge project called ''Costa Azul'', which includes miles of coastline. He has made a fortune in recent years, but at the limits of what is considered legal. * Alicia Borrachero is Silvia Bertomeu, Rubén's daughter, who runs a gallery and lives separate from the darker side of her father's business. *Juana A ...
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Complutense University Of Madrid Alumni
The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's most prestigious institutions of higher learning. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of Pozuelo de Alarcón. It is named after the ancient Roman settlement of Complutum, now an archeological site in Alcalá de Henares, just east of Madrid. It enrolls over 86,000 students, making it the eighth largest non-distance European university by enrollment. By Royal Decree of 1857, the Central University was the first and only institution in Spain authorized to grant doctorate degrees throughout the Spanish Empire. In 1909, the Central University became one of the first universities in the world to grant ...
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People From Lorca, Spain
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Spanish Male Novelists
Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine ** Spanish history ** Spanish culture **Languages of Spain, the various languages in Spain Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Canada * Spanish River (other), the name of several rivers * Spanish Town, Jamaica Other uses * John J. Spanish (1922–2019), American politician * "Spanish" (song), a single by Craig David, 2003 See also * * * Español (other) * Spain (other) * España (other) * Espanola (other) * Hispania, the Roman and Greek name for the Iberian Peninsula * Hispanic, the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain * Hispanic (other) * Hispanism * Spain (other) * National and regional identity in Spain * Culture of Spain The culture of Spain is influenced by its Weste ...
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Prensa Ibérica
Prensa Ibérica Media, S.L., or simply Prensa Ibérica, is a Spanish mass media company owned by Javier Moll. It primarily owns regional newspapers. History Founded by Javier Moll, the company traces back its origins to 1978, with the creation of Prensa Canaria, the editor of the morning newspaper '' La Provincia'' and the evening newspaper ''Diario de Las Palmas''. Yet the creation of Editorial Prensa Ibérica took place in 1984, following the acquisition in a public auction of ''La Nueva España'' (Asturias), ''Levante-EMV'' (Valencia) and ''Información'' (Alicante) from the , the State-owned media holding liquidated by the Felipe González's government, a renaming of the Francoist Cadena de Prensa del Movimiento. It also purchased the ''Faro de Vigo''. The group consolidated together with its rival Vocento as the two largest regional media holdings in Spain. The company purchased Grupo Zeta in 2019, adding newspapers such as ''El Periódico de Catalunya'', '' El Periód ...
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Segunda Muerte
''Segunda muerte'' is a Spanish rural thriller television series created by Agustín Martínez which stars Georgina Amorós and Karra Elejalde. It debuted on Movistar Plus+ on 6 June 2024. Plot Sandra Ortiz finds the corpse of an old family friend purportedly buried long ago in an isolated cabin. Sandra is an auxiliary police officer gifted with high intelligence and photographic memory who returned to her hometown in Cantabria to exert motherhood, leaving a career in an important tech company behind. She also has a complicated relationship with her father Tello, a legendary retired UCO agent with developing signs of senile dementia and resentful of her daughter's life choices, while Castro, the father of Sandra's son, is about to leave prison after seven years. Cast Production ''Segunda muerte'' is a Movistar Plus+ original production produced with the collaboration of DLO Producciones. The episodes were written by Agustín Martínez and Isa Sánchez and directed by Ále ...
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The Darkest Light
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ...
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La Caza
''The Hunt'' (in Spanish ''La Caza'') is a 1966 cinema of Spain, Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is a psychological thriller about three veterans of the Spanish Civil War who meet to go rabbit hunting. It was Saura's first international success, winning the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival. It is considered a classic of Cinema of Spain, Spanish Cinema, and Sam Peckinpah has said that it was a major influence upon him. Plot José, Paco and Luis, three middle-aged men, veteran Falangists, reunite in a provincial village of Castile (historical region), Castile, spending a hot summer's day drinking, reminiscing and hunting rabbits. José instigates the hunt. He is in debt because of an impending divorce and is living beyond his means with a younger woman. His main objective at the reunion is to secure a loan from Paco, a shrewd businessman, also unhappily in love and looking for younger women. Paco brings with him Luis, now emp ...
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