Ledicia Costas is a Galician author with a degree in Law, who has dedicated herself professionally and exclusively to literature for several years. She published her first book in 2000 and since then she has written many novels for children and young people that have been translated into several languages, such as Korean, Italian and Bulgarian. Her extraordinary narrative has won her several awarded literary prizes, such as the National Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature and, on two occasions, the Lazarillo Prize, leading to her gaining thousands of readers. "Infamia" [Infamy] is her first novel for adults and cements her position as one of the most influential authors in contemporary Spanish fiction.