Fernando M. Torres Lara

Fernando M. Torres Lara (1990). Born in Cádiz and currently living in El Puerto de Santa María. I hold a degree in History and postgraduate training in Historical Heritage, Flamenco Research and Analysis, and Secondary Education in Social Sciences.

I have always felt divided —or perhaps united— between two ways of looking at the world: that of the historian, who analyzes and interprets the past through method, and that of the novelist, who builds worlds through imagination.

I grew up fascinated by the stories of authors such as Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Nomura, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tolkien, and Brandon Sanderson. I’ve also been deeply influenced by writers of psychological horror like Shirley Jackson and Akiyuki Nosaka.

My writing moves between fable and reality, between memory and myth. I have published The Legend of Mirel: Fungi and The Twisted Almond Tree, and I continue to write from that fragile boundary where the real and the imaginary meet.