Matilde Asensi Carratalá (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist and writer, specialised mainly in
historical novel
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to oth ...
s.
Biography
Asensi was born at
Alicante
Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...
.
She studied journalism at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Autonomous University of Barcelona (; Spanish: ; ; UAB) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.
, the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, lif ...
, 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 Government-owned corporation, state-owned public service broadcasting, public service radio broadcaster in Spain.
RNE is the radio division and T ...
(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
Writers from Alicante
20th-century Spanish novelists
21st-century Spanish novelists
Spanish historical novelists
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
Spanish women novelists
21st-century 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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