Laura Fernández

Laura Fernández is a writer, journalist, and cultural critic with a lengthy career in the written media. She is author of Bienvenidos a Welcome (Welcome to Welcome, Elipsis 2008 /Literatura Random House, 2019), Wendolin Kramer (Seix Barral, 2011), La Chica Zombie (The Zombie Girl, Seix Barral, 2013), El Show de Grossman (The Grossman Show, Aristas Martínez, 2013), Connerland (Literatura Random House, 2017), and La señora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus (Mrs Potter Isn’t Exactly Santa Claus, Literatura Random House, 2021). This widely acclaimed latter work has received such prizes as the 2021 El Ojo Crítico de Narrativa and the 2021 Finestres de Narrativa in Spanish. She has recently published her first essay Hay un monstruo en el lago (There’s a Monster in the Lake, Debate, 2024), an exploration of the story of the mysterious Loch Ness monster and reflection on the world as a place of fantasy. As a journalist, she currently writes for outlets like El País.