After the publishing of her story 'Finis Mundi', she continued with other stories such as
'Mandrágora' or the tetralogy of 'Crónicas de la Torre'. However, although her fame is mainly
due to her juvenile novel, she has also published stories aimed at children.
In 2002, she won this contest again, this time with her novel ‘La leyenda del rey errante’. In
collaboration with SM publishing house, she has also published ‘El coleccionista de relojes
extraordinarios’, the trilogy of ‘Memorias de Idhún’, ‘Donde los árboles cantan’, ‘Dos velas
para el diablo’, the saga of ‘Crónicas de la Torre’ and ‘Las hijas de Tara’, this last one as part of
the collection “Gran Angular”.
In 2004, she started publishing her second trilogy, called ‘Memorias de Idhún’ (Memorias de
Idhún I: La Resistencia, Memorias de Idhún II: Tríada, Memorias de Idhún III: Panteón). This
was her biggest success, with more than 750 000 copies sold.
She founded the university magazine ‘Náyade’, which was distributed by the Faculty of
Philology at the University of Valencia. She was the co-director from 1997 to 2010.
Afterwards, she has published several independent books, most of them in the fantasy genre,
as well as the second part of ‘Alas de fuego’, entitled ‘Alas negras’. She has also entered the
realist literature with the serie «Sara y las goleadoras», which includes titles such as: ‘Creando
equipo’, ‘Las chicas somos guerreras’, ‘Goleadoras en la liga’, ‘El fútbol y el amor son
incompatibles’, ‘Las Goleadoras no se rinden’ and ‘El último gol’. Her novel ‘Donde los árboles
cantan’, published in October 2011, won the ‘Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil’
in 2012. Also, she has won the ‘Cervantes Chico’ Prize. That same year, she returned to
children's literature with ‘Mago por casualidad’.
In March, 2017, she published ‘Por una rosa’, a book that contains three stories written by
three different novelists: Laura Gallego, Javier Ruescas and Benito Taibo. These are three
stories set in the universe of the classic tale ‘Beauty and the Beast’.
Awards
The major prize the novelist has received is the ‘Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y
Juvenil’ in 2012 with her fantasy-epic story ‘Dónde los árboles cantan’. This award, endowed
with 20,000 euros, was given by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. This award
meant that her story was the best book in children's or juvenile literature published in 2011
in any of the official languages spoken in Spain.
Likewise, in 2011, she was awarded with the ‘Premio Cervantes Chico’ Prize by the City Hall
of Alcalá de Henares and the ‘Asociación de Libreros y Papeleros’. She was also awarded
with the ‘Premio de Literatura Infantil El Barco de Vapor’ twice. First, in 1999, with her story
‘Finis Mundi’ and then, in 2002, with her story ‘La leyenda del rey errante’. She also received
the ‘Imaginamalaga 2013’ Prize with her story ‘El libro de los portales’, and also the ‘Kelvin
505’ Prize in 2016.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Gallego_Garc%C3%ADa)