Martínez Asensio has received the award for the promotion of reading from the Spanish publishers' guild.
Antonio Martínez Asensio (Madrid, 60 years old) is a respected voice in the literary world. He has accumulated more than 300 episodes at the head of the program Un libro. Una hora from Cadena SER, which every Sunday emotionally unravels the great classics of universal literature. Such informative work has earned him the latest Liber Award from the publishers' guild for the promotion of reading.
A philologist by training, he was a forerunner in the production of audiobooks and now publishes his first written work: ‘Cien libros, una vida’ (Aguilar), where he takes the reader through the titles that fueled his passion for literature. Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Gabriel García Márquez, José Saramago and Belén Gopegui are some of the authors that stand out in its pages.
It is a very personal selection, he says in the living room of his rented home in Madrid, less crowded with books than one might expect. “I'm keeping them at my mother's house, moving with them is crazy,” he says.
