Blasco Ibáñez

American  

[blah-skaw ee-vah-nyeth, -nyes] / ˈblɑ skɔ iˈvɑ nyɛθ, -nyɛs /

noun

1. Vicente 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, journalist, and politician.

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Blasco Ibáñez British  

/ ˈblasko iˈβaɲeθ /

noun

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

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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 The 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

Thus when Vicente Blasco Ibanez, a writer of ability, but of little depth, attacks the King of Spain, his plot is doubtless fodder for the cinema kings.

From Time Magazine Archive

His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props.

From Time Magazine Archive