HAY UN MONSTRUO EN EL LAGO

In 1933, a Scottish couple claims to see a huge creature emerging from the surface of Loch Ness, and the news of the sighting becomes a media phenomenon and an unbeatable tourist attraction.

Almost a hundred years later, Laura Fernández navigates the greenish waters of the loch in the footsteps of Nessie or what remains of a legend that has been closing in on itself. Among plesiosaurs, monster hunters, reporters, fake news and a pair of soldier dolphins, the story of the writer's journey to the Highlands is the chronicle and personal rewriting of this popular story, but also a reflection in pure Fernández style on the act of imagining, believing and creating reality, on the fine line between fiction and reality, and on the monstrous and the elusive as keys that open the floodgates to the many worlds that make up a world, Nessie reminds us, mysteriously fantastic.

Laura Fernández (Terrassa, 1981) is the author of six novels: Welcome to Welcome (Elipsis 2008; Literatura Random House, 2019), Wendolin Kramer (Seix Barral, 2011), La Chica Zombie (Seix Barral, 2013), El Show de Grossman (Aristas Martínez, 2013), Connerland (Literatura Random House, 2017) and La señora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus (Literatura Random House, 2021), that was distinguished with the Ojo Crítico de Narrativa Prize 2021, the Finestres Prize for Narrative in Spanish 2021, the Las librerías Recomiendan Prize for best fiction book of 2021, and the Kelvin 505 Prize, as well as a Special Mention at the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards.

Her work has been translated into French, Italian and English, and her short stories have been included in numerous anthologies, and finally collected in a volume of selected stories entitled Damas, caballeros y planetas (Random, 2023).

Her stories have the punch of an over-read Stella Gibbons' Douglas Adams, and the otherworldly ambition of a Thomas Pynchon fan of Stephen King. She is also a journalist and literary and music critic, and a passionate interviewer. She currently writes mainly for El País, although she has contributed to a myriad of media in the past. She also worked in a video store and started a band. She has two children and a stack of Philip K. Dick books.