José Ortega Torres

• Name — José Ortega Torres • Pen Name — Narzeo Antino, Aldo Fresno • Born — 1943 • Birthplace — Granada, Spain • Occupation — Professor • Period — 20th–21st Century • Genre — Poetry • Movement — Generación de los 70

Ortega Torres was born in Granada, Spain in 1943. He majored in Romance Philology at the University of Granada between 1966 and 1969 and in 1971 read his dissertation "Aproximación a la poesía de Rafael Guillén" (Approach to the poetry of Rafael Guillén), under the supervision of Professor Emilio Orozco Díaz. In 1975, he founded with poets José Lupiáñez (La Línea de la Concepción) and José Gutiérrez (Granada) the Silene literary collection, which since then has published works by many local poets (among others, Juan de Loxa, José Rienda, Elena Martín Vivaldi and Carmelo Sánchez Muros). He obtained his Ph.D. in Spanish Philology in 1971 with the work "La poesía de Rafael Guillén: lengua, temas y estilo" (Rafael Guillén's Poetry - Language, Subjects and Style). During the 1990s and 2000s, he taught Spanish Literature at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada. Ortega Torres used the anagram Narzeo Antino. He died from injuries sustained in a fire on 29 November 2025, at the age of 82.

Aynadamar el recinto del amor. Y tu presencia claro fulgor: inminencia alza el afán nunca extinto. Conjunto de laberinto entreteje la colina (sabio secreto de mina tanta riqueza procura). Huésped tú de la hermosura donde la ofrenda culmina. • 'Diamante', Granada, 1978, p. 34.