Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist, a screenwriter and occasional film director. His novels Sangre Y Arena (Blood and Sand) and Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) are his most popular novels, while his Valencian novels such as La Barraca and Canas Y Barro are valued by scholars.