Laura Gallego García

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Laura Gallego García is a Spanish author specializing in young adult fantasy fiction, born October 11, 1977, in Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain. She studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Valencia and founded and co-directed the university's literary magazine Náyade from 1997 to 2010. Gallego began writing seriously at age eleven and completed thirteen unpublished manuscripts before achieving her breakthrough with Finis Mundi in 1999. She is best known for the Memorias de Idhún trilogy (2004–2006), her most commercially successful work with more than 750,000 copies sold, as well as the four-book Crónicas de la Torre series, the realistic-fiction Sara y las goleadoras series, and the Guardianes de la Ciudadela trilogy (2018–2019). Her honors include the Barco de Vapor Prize in both 1999 and 2002, Spain's Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil in 2012 for Dónde los árboles cantan, the Premio Cervantes Chico in 2011 for her body of work, and the Imaginamálaga Prize in 2013. Her novels have been translated into more than seventeen languages, from Bulgarian to Swedish, making her one of the most widely read Spanish-language fantasy authors internationally, particularly among adolescent readers across Latin America and Europe.

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Books

• Memorias de Idhún I: La Resistencia (2004) · Memories of Idhún Core Canon
• Memorias de Idhún II: Tríada (2005) · Memories of Idhún Core Canon
• Memorias de Idhún III: Panteón (2006) · Memories of Idhún Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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