David UCLÉS

David Uclés (Úbeda, 1990) is the author of the bestseller La península de las casas vacías (Siruela, 2024), which became an international phenomenon, with over 500,000 copies sold and available in 20 languages, including French, German, Italian and Portuguese. For this novel, he received the Cálamo Prize for Best Book of the Year 2024, the Andalusian Critics’ Prize, the Espartaco Prize for Best Historical Novel, the Dulce Chacón Prize, the San Clemente Prize, the Kelvin 505 Prize for Best Fantasy Novel, the Prize for Best Novel at the Festival 42 and the Andalusia Prize for Culture. He was also the Spanish nominee for the 2025 European Union Prize for Literature and a finalist for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize. In 2024, Babelia named it the best Spanish novel of the year in its annual list. With his latest novel, La ciudad de las luces muertas (Destino, 2026), he has won the prestigious Nadal Prize.