(Madrid, 1955) Doctor of Philology, Professor of Comparative Literature, director of ABC CULTURAL, secretary of the editorial office of the magazine REVISTA DE OCCIDENTE and head of the masters on Contemporary Culture of the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset. He was director of Instituto Cervantes, General Director of Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas (Ministry of Culture) director of the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (ICI) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and professor at various universities, such as Foreign Language 2 in Beijing (China) and Antwerp (Belgium). At the same time, he is the author of numerous articles on literature, film and football.