David Hernández de la Fuente

Hernández de la Fuente has authored several books on Classics and the Ancient World such as Oráculos griegos (2008), De Galatea a Barbie (2010), Las máscaras del hidalgo (2010), Vidas de Pitágoras (2011), Breve historia de Bizancio (2011) Historia del pensamiento político griego (2014) or Civilización Griega (2014) among others. He has won unanimous praise from both the public and the critics for his non-fiction writing on Classical Literature and its reception in the modern world. His popular monograph on Pythagoras, with two editions, has been appointed "Book of the Year" by the cultural supplement of El País. His last essay on Dionysos and Ariadne El despertar del alma (2017) has also won praise from both scholars and literary critics. Moreover, he has edited collective monographs such as New Perspectives on Late Antiquity (2011) or The Theodosian Age (AD 379–455): Power, Place, Belief and Learning at the End of the Western Empire (2013) and authored numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. Hernández de la Fuente has edited, translated into Spanish and commented Classical authors such as Nonnus of Panopolis, Plutarch, Plato or Pindar.

David Hernández de la Fuente started his career as fiction writer in 2004 with the book Las puertas del sueño (Madrid, 2005), which was awarded the VIII Young Artists Prize of the Community of Madrid (Spanish Wikipedia) and he has published ever since novels and short stories in literary journals (Barcelona Review, Cuadernos del Matemático) and anthologies (Inmenso estrecho, etc.). His experimental novel Continental (2007) was acclaimed by the critic as the work of "one of the most vigorous representatives of the New Spanish Narrative." He has been awarded the prestigious Valencia Prize for Narrative (Institució Alfons el Magnànim (Spanish Wikipedia), Diputación de Valencia (Spanish Wikipedia)) for his novel A cubierto (Madrid, 2011). Further on he has published the fictional travel diary s/t, and the novels La caverna de las cigarras, El retorno de los Heraclidas and El origen del vellocino de oro .

David Hernández de la Fuente (born 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish writer, translator and university lecturer who is specialized in Classics.

Hernández de la Fuente was born in Madrid in 1974 and he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid. He obtained university degrees in Classics, Spanish Philology and Law from Madrid University and a PhD in Classics and Sociology. After the completion of his PhD, he has been lecturer of Classical Studies at the Charles III University of Madrid, Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at the Chair of Ancient History of the University of Potsdam and Professor at the Department of Ancient History at the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED). He has been visiting scholar at several European and American universities, such as Columbia University, University of Florence, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense or Free University of Berlin.