Born in Madrid in 1954, this editor, writer and graphic designer studied Philosophy and Arts at Madrid’s Autonomous University. In 1980 he published a book, La muerte del rey Arturo, by an anonymous French 13th-century author, which won the prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture for the best book published that year. In 1982 he founded the publishing house Siruela, which in 2004 won the National Prize for Best Publisher given by the Ministry of Culture. With Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde, he started a collection of books which offered the Spanish public all the most important writings from Arthurian legend, some of which were being printed in Spanish for the first time. In 1983 he published the Biblioteca de Babel, edited and introduced by Jorge Luis Borges and published in Italy by Franco Maria Ricci; in 1987 he published his own collection of fantasy literature, El Ojo sin Párpado.