Laura Fernández

Invitado de Honor

(Terrassa, 1981) is the author of six novels: Bienvenidos a Welcome (Elipsis, 2008; Literatura Random House, 2019), Wendolin Kramer (Seix Barral, 2011), La Chica Zombie (Seix Barral, 2013), El Show de Grossman (Aristas Martínez, 2013), Connerland (Literatura Random House, 2017) and La señora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus (Literatura Random House, 2021). Her latest novel received the awards Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa 2021, Premio Finestres de Narrativa en Castellano 2021, Premio Las librerías Recomiendan for best fiction book of 2021, and Premio Kelvin 505, in addition to a Special Mention at the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards.

Her work has been translated into French, Italian, English and Japanese, and her stories have been included in numerous anthologies, and eventually gathered in a volume of selected stories entitled Damas, caballeros y planetas (Random, 2023). Her most recent work is a short essay on the world as a fantastic place entitled Hay un monstruo en el lago (Debate, 2024). Her stories have the punch of a Douglas Adams who has read too much Stella Gibbons, and the ambition of Thomas Pynchon's complex alternate world, but with a Stephen King-esque twist.

She is also a journalist and literary and music critic, and a passionate interviewer of writers. She currently writes mainly for El País, although she has contributed to an endless number of outlets. In the past, she also worked at a video rental store and had a band. She has two children and a lot of books by Philip K. Dick.

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