Mallorca publisher Diana Zafortezahead of editorial Alfabia, He died on Tuesday in Barcelona at the age of 44.according to industry sources.

The daughter of José Saforteza Delgado and Dolores Rhodes, Diana Saforteza, who studied the humanities in Barcelona, ​​founded Alpha Decay in 2003 with Enric Cucurella.

BUT editorial sponsored by literary agent Carmen Balcellswhich was born with the publication of the book The New Inquisitors, a collection that collects all the stories published by Javier Tomeo.

In 2008, Zaforteza took on a new project, this time the only one, Ediciones Alfabia, which he presented in style at a party in the Mallorcan gardens of the family estate.

His goal was to restore the classics along with contemporary authors.as well as the introduction of small format books with stories by close authors such as José Carlos Llop or Enrique Vila-Matas, a project in collaboration with renowned literary agent Andrew Wylie “El Chakal”.

The publication of the only novel by Bernard-Marie Coltes, A Flight on Horseback into the Interior of the City, hitherto unpublished in Spanish, and, above all, the publication of an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven, written by rock icon Lou Reed with illustrations by Lorenzo Mattotti, became two important milestones as editor of Zaforteza that brought the rocker to Barcelona to present the book.