He promoted and solidified the Madrid Book Fair, which he directed from 2005 to 2016.

You yelled "Teo!" anywhere, in a bookstore, at the Madrid Book Fair, in a cultural event, on the streets where Teodoro Sacristán walked and he would turn with a face full of joy, like someone who had just met a friend, for example, at the top of Kilimanjaro. It was a delicate and conscientious joy, as if that smile had never experienced sadness, but rather a happiness that he wanted to share since he was a boy.

The happines we felt when meeting him is now a memory, because Teo, who was born in Madrid in 1951, died on Sunday in the same city  where he walked the streets, went to work, to meet others, always with the same desire for solidarity and astonishment. It was the quiet man smiling. More than 15 years ago he started a dream, directing (with his friend the bookseller Fernando Valverde, from Jarcha) the Madrid Book Fair. This event reached an exciting and symbolic power for him, because Teo did not hold a book of his own in his hands until he was 26 years old.

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