Manuel Alfonseca | |
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Born | Manuel Alfonseca Moreno April 24, 1946 Spain Madrid, España |
Occupation | Professor novelist Science popularizer |
Manuel Alfonseca (born 1946, Madrid) is a Spanish writer and university professor. He is the son of the painter and sculptor Manuel Alfonseca Santana.
He is a doctor of communications engineering and graduated in Computer Science. He worked for 22 years at IBM (1972–1994), where he was Senior Technical Staff Member. He has been a professor at several universities: Complutense de Madrid, Politécnica de Madrid and (now) Autónoma de Madrid, where he was a full professor (currently an honorary professor) and director of the Escuela Politécnica Superior (2001–2004).[1]
He has published about two hundred technical papers in Spanish and English,[2][3][4][5] as well as many articles on popular science in high diffusion newspapers[6] and web blogs.[7]
He is the author of over fifty books[8] in the fields of computer science and popular science, as well as historic novels, science fiction, and young adult literature.
He was granted the Lazarillo Award (1988) and La Brújula Award for Children and Young Adult Narrative (2012),[9] besides having been finalist and included in honor lists several times. He was also given three Outstanding Technical Achievements Awards (1981, 1983, 1985) and one Technical Paper Award (1989) by IBM.
a) Fantasy
b) Historical
c) Science Fiction
d) Mystery and intrigue
e) Miscellaneous