Matilde Asensi Carratalá (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist and writer, specialised mainly in
historical novels.
Biography
Asensi was born at
Alicante
Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...
.
She studied journalism at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Autonomous University of Barcelona ( ca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; , es, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; UAB), is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.
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, and she later worked for three years in the service of news of Radio Alicante-SER and
Radio Nacional de España
Radio Nacional de España (acronym RNE, branded rne, "National Radio of Spain") is the national state-owned public service radio broadcaster in Spain.
RNE is the radio division and Televisión Española (TVE) is the television division of R ...
(RNE, ''Spanish National Radio'') as the person in charge of local and provincial news. She was also correspondent for Agencia EFE and provincial contributor in the newspapers ''La Verdad'' and ''Información''.
Works
"Martín Ojo de Plata" trilogy:
# 2007: ''Tierra firme''
# 2010: ''Venganza en Sevilla''
# 2012: ''La conjura de Cortés''
# 2013: ''Martin ojo de plata'' (compilation)
Cato series:
# 2001: ''El último Catón'' (translated into English, 2006, as "The Last Cato" by Pamela Carmell)
# 2015: ''El Regreso del Catón''
Other works:
* 1999: ''El salón de ámbar''
* 2000: ''Iacobus''
* 2003: ''El origen perdido''
* 2004: ''Peregrinatio''
* 2006: ''Todo bajo el cielo''
* 2019: ''Sakura'' (La Esfera de los Libros, 2019)
References
External links
*
Official website
1962 births
Living people
People from Alicante
Writers from the Valencian Community
20th-century Spanish novelists
21st-century Spanish novelists
Spanish historical novelists
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
Spanish women novelists
Spanish women journalists
20th-century Spanish women writers
21st-century Spanish women writers
Women historical novelists
20th-century Spanish journalists
21st-century Spanish journalists
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