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Laura Gallego has a place of honor among the authors of children and young adult literature of our country. A Doctor in Spanish Philology from the University of Valencia, she began to write at the tender age of 11. Finis Mundi, the first novel she published, won the Premio El Barco de Vapor, an award she would win again three years later with La leyenda del Rey Errante.

In addition to some children’s tales, Laura Gallego has written more than thirty novels so far, among which are Crónicas de la Torre, Donde los árboles cantan, distinguished with the Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, Todas las hadas del Reino, Todos los hombres del Rey, Omnia, El ciclo del eterno emperador, Stravagantia, and her acclaimed trilogies Memoria de Idhún and Guardianes de la Ciudadela. In 2011, Laura Gallego received the Premio Cervantes Chico for the whole of her work. Her work has been widely translated.