Vicente Blasco Ib Ez / Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (29 January 1867 - 28 January 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel 'Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis' (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse).