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 age of 11. Finis Mundi, the first novel she published, won the Barco de Vapor Award, an award she would win again three years later with La leyenda del Rey Errante.

Laura Gallego has written more than thirty novels so far, among which are Crónicas de la Torre, Donde los árboles cantan, distinguished with the National Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 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 2025 she published the first two volumes of her new saga Four Moons, which will conclude in 2026 with the release of two more books. In 2011, Laura Gallego received the Cervantes Chico Prize for the whole of her work. Her work has been widely translated.