Matilde Asensi Carratalá (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist and writer, specialised mainly in
historical novel
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ty ...
s.
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 th ...
.
She studied journalism at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona, and she later worked for three years in the service of news of Radio Alicante-SER and
Radio Nacional de España (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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