Fernando J. López del Oso Was born in Madrid in 1974 and graduated in Biology.He became interested in travel and ecotourism, designing travel packages for some of the most exclusive travel agencies. He also started contributing to the magazine Enigmas. He is the author of the travelogue Un viaje mágico por Egipto (“A Magical tour of Egypt”) and the essay La sexta extinción (“The sixth extinction”). El templo de la luna, which received the Minotauro Prize in 2009, is his first novel.