Manolo Palomares

Manolo Palomares (Valencia, Spain, 1974) is a historical fiction author currently living in Mexico. A finalist for the 2026 Amazon Storyteller Literary Award with his Spanish-language novel "Morirás en Despoblado" (You Shall Die in the Despoblado), about the frontier of New Spain in the sixteenth century.

He is the author of the historical novels "Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico", "Mestizo", "The Last Night of Troy", and "You Shall Die in the Despoblado".