{"id":22630,"date":"2018-06-11T09:52:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lauragallego.com\/?page_id=22630"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:33:50","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lauragallego.com\/en\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row gap=&#8221;35&#8243; el_class=&#8221;two-col-border margin-bottom-3x&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]I&#8217;m a YA Spanish author, specializing mainly in fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>I have been writing since I was 11. That was when I started to work on my first novel together with a friend. That book was never published, nor were the twelve I wrote after that when I was a teenager. I always dreamed of being a writer. When I was 18, I began studying a Spanish degree at the University of Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, at the age of 21, my first novel was published. It was called <em>Finis Mundi<\/em>, and it was actually my fourteenth book. It was a novel for young adults set in the Middle Ages, with some fantasy elements. I entered it into a literary competition (El Barco de Vapor) and I won. That is how I managed to get published for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I haven\u2019t stopped writing. I have had over twenty books published, most of them novels for young adults with a fantasy theme. The trilogy <em>Memorias de Idh\u00fan<\/em>, which in Spain alone reached a readership of 800,000, is the best known. My work has been translated into several languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean.<\/p>\n<p>I recently published a new trilogy, <em>Guardians of the Citadel<\/em>, and the novel <em>The Eternal Emperor Cycle<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Besides writing, I love reading, especially fantasy literature and science fiction, and I try to keep up-to-date with and continue to discover new authors. Although my favourite book is still the same as it was over twenty years ago:<em>The Never-ending Story<\/em>, by Michael Ende.<\/p>\n<p>I also like film, manga and some video games, especially role-play and adventure ones. 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