Jorge Martínez Reverte,
who died this Wednesday in Madrid at the age of 72, was prolific both in his journalistic work, where he worked in the written press, radio and television, and as a writer, with numerous novels and history books, especially on the Civil war.
Son of journalist Jesús Martínez Tessier, Jorge M. Reverte, as he signed his works, has died only five months after his brother, also writer and journalist
Javier Martínez Reverte,
who signed with his second surname.
Jorge M. Reverte was also the creator of the character
Julio Gálvez,
a fictional journalist who starred in a series of several of his novels, some of which were made into a movie.
And the author of many books on the Civil War, such as
"The Battle of the Ebro", "The Battle of Madrid", "The Fall of Catalonia"
or "
The Art of Killing"
, which were best sellers, as well as a dozen novels.
Graduated in Journalism from the Official School in 1972, he was director, editor and owner of "
Zona Abierta"
(1973-78) and worked on publications such as "
Historia 16
" and
"Cambio 16"
(1974-75);
"
Citizen
" and
"
Citizen
Dossier
" (1975-76), and "
La caula
" (1977).
In addition, he worked on "
El País
" and "
En theory"
.
He also wrote in the magazines
"Cuadernos para el Diálogo", "El Viejo Topo", "Joiner"
or "
La Calle"
.
From the written press, Martínez Reverte went to radio and television.
He was
director of Onda Madrid
and of the
Madrid
Radio Television Corporation from December 1984 to February 1988. Shortly before, in December 1987, he was appointed deputy director of the non-daily News of Spanish Television (TVE), where he replaced Ramón Colom, at the same time that he personally directed the weekly space
"Informe Semanal
".
Within his area, TVE included programs such as "
The afternoon", "Documentos TV
" or "
En portada
".
In August 1988, he resigned to the director of the news services, Julio de Benito, since, according to him, he did not enjoy the confidence of the general director, Pilar Miro, as demonstrated by the fact that he had not participated in the reform process from the news area.
In 1989 he directed the episodes of the series "
Crónica Amarga"
, entitled
"La muerte del Santi"
, related to the world of drugs, and
"The case of the disappeared woman"
, about the murder with hammer blows of a woman.
Both attended the
"Time of History"
cycle in October 1989
, within
the Valladolid International Film Week.
As a writer, he was the creator of the character Julio Gálvez, a fictional journalist who starred in the novels "
Too Much for Gálvez",
set in 1973 and published in 1979, and "
Gálvez in Euskadi"
(1983), both taken to the cinema "without much success. ", according to the same one recognized.
Reverte recovered the character later in other novels.
He is also the author of the book of short stories
"The last coffee", "The messenger"
(1982) and "
Terrorists
".
He also served as a producer together with Mario Onaindía.
In 1992 the series "
Malas artes
", produced by him and broadcast on Canal Sur de Televisión, received one of the Andalusia Awards for Journalism.
In 2006 he received the Terenci Moix International Prize for
the best history book for
"The Fall of Catalonia"
and in 2009 the
Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism.
In recent years he published "
Warriors and traitors", "The Atocha slaughter"
and "
Uselessly handsome"
, about a stroke that he suffered and that did not prevent him from continuing to research and write.
In 2018 he published,
"A happy childhood in a ferocious Spain"
, an emotional journey through a childhood marked by the Civil War and its aftermath.
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