Rafael Yglesias

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Rafael Yglesias (born May 12, 1954 in New York City ) is an American writer and screenwriter.

Rafael Yglesias is the son of the Cuban-born writer Jose Yglesias and the Jewish and Russian-born writer Helen Iglesias . He was born and raised in Washington Heights , Manhattan . Yglesias began to write at a young age. He dropped out of school after 10th grade to finish his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After . The novel was published in 1972. Six other novels were published in the following years. In 1990 he wrote his first screenplay for an American television game. In 1993 the film adaptation of his novel Fearless appeared . For this film he wrote the first screenplay for a feature film. Directed by Peter Weir . A year later, Roman Polański's film Death and the Maiden was released . Yglesias had written the script based on the play of the same name by Ariel Dorfman .

After a thirteen year hiatus as a novelist, Yglesias wrote the novel A Happy Marriage , which was published in German in 2010 under the title Happy Marriage . The book is about Yglesias' marriage to the artist Margaret Joskow, who died of cancer in 2004 after 30 years of marriage.

The couple have two sons who are also active as a writer.

bibliography

  • 1972: Hide Fox, And All After
  • 1976: The Work Is Innocent
  • 1978: The Game Player
  • 1986: Hot Properties
  • 1988: Only Children
  • 1990: The Murderer Next Door
  • 1993: Fearless (German: Fearless - beyond fear )
  • 1996: Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil (German: Dr. Neruda's therapy against evil )
  • 2009: A Happy Marriage (German: Happy marriage )
  • 2015: The Wisdom of Perversity
  • 2016: Fabulous At Fifty

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabulous At Fifty at rafaelyglesias.com/, accessed October 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Yglesias, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City