Education
He attended the studios of the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid in a part of 1962 and worked in the Destino specials.
He attended the studios of the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid in a part of 1962 and worked in the Destino specials.
His novels have sold over 25 million copies worldwide. He is the owner of A.V.F.S.L, a desalinization company that uses a method of desalinization by pressure, invented by himself. Vázquez-Figueroa and his family fled from the Canary Islands to Africa during the Spanish Civil War.
Since his youth, he visited the Sahara and described the culture of the desert region.
He was a war correspondent in Louisiana Vanguardia, for TVE (Televisión Española) and for the program A toda plana with de la Cuadra Salcedo and Silva. As a correspondent, he documented revolutionary wars in countries such as Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.
He later wrote his first novel, Arena y viento (Sand and Wind), and in 1975, he published as many as 14 to 15 novellas such as Ébano. His other works include Tuareg, Ébano, and as well as the sagas Cienfuegos,, Manaos and Piratas.
His novel Tuareg was cinematized in 1984 by director Enzo G. Castellari.
His novel Iguana was cinematized in 1988 by Monte Hellman. Tuareg (1980), cinematized as Tuareg – The Desert Warrior.