Laura Gallego GarcÃa
Laura Gallego García [ laʊɾa gaʎeɰo gaɾθia ] (born 11 October 1977 in Quart de Poblet, Valencia ) is a Spanish children's author.
Life
Gallego García wrote her first book at the age of eleven years, together with a friend, an approximately 300 -page work entitled Zodíaccía, un mundo diferente (Spanish about " Zodiakia, Another World" ), in which a girl a magical island traveled on everything is connected with the Zodiac signs of horoscope. Although the story was never published in a publishing house (but Gallego García they published themselves on their website later), it was already clear at that time that she wanted to be a writer.
In 1997 she founded during her studies, Hispanic - philological University magazine nayade and served until 2000 as its co-director.
At age 21, also during her studies, she wrote the novel Finis Mundi (Latin for " The End of the World"), with whom she won the first prize in the competition Barco de Vaport of Spanish literature publishing house Grupo SM and was subsequently released in 1999. Gallego García had already written at this time 14 unpublished books and participated several times in vain in this competition.
Gallego García became famous with the Crónicas de la Torre cycle ( " Chronicles of the tower " ), consisting of the works of El Valle de los Lobos ( " The Valley of the Wolves " ), La maldicion del Maestro ( " The Curse of the master" ), La llamada de los muertos ( " call of the dead" ) and Fenris, el elfo ( " Fenris, the elf "). In 2004 she began her next great cycle, Memorias de Idhún ( "Memories of Idhún ", German title Secret World Idhún ). Although Gallego García mainly dedicated to children 's literature, she also writes books for adult readers, about Retorno a la Isla Blanca ( "return to White Island " ) and El cartero de los sueños ( " The Postman of Dreams" ).
She is currently working on her dissertation about the courtly romance Belianís de Grecia Jerónimo Fernández from the year 1579. She lives alone now in Alboraya, a village near Valencia.
Writing style
Gallego García covers with their works a wide range of styles: in addition historically - fantastic novels such as Finis Mundi and her main work in the epic and fantastic area with Las Crónicas de la Torre and Memorias de Idhún there are several children's books and with Las hijas de Tara ( " the daughters of Tara "), even a trip to the science fiction.
In her fantasy stories feel outweighs the fantastic elements. Your people bring without ceasing feelings of doubt, fears and sentiments, and be guided by them, unlike the usual fantasy, are found in the preferred ideas such as honor and duty. So the dialogues of the Memorias de Idhún for example, are influenced by reflections of the main character Victoria about their contradictory affection for two contrasting people.
Works
From Gallego García until today 14 novels and 5 short stories were published, another novel is in the works (as of 26 August 2007). The works are:
She is also a scriptwriter of the series Sara y las goleadoras ( " Sara and the striker ").