(Jaén, 1968) is a doctor in Anthropology, and a professor of Geography and History in Secondary Education. He has published several history books and dozens of articles in Spanish, Italian and French university magazines and research centers. He has participated in the elaboration of the Spanish Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Academy of History. As a novelist, he has to date five novels, all of them published in Edhasa and very well received by critics and the public: The Brotherhood of the Invincible Armada (2016), The Watchmaker of Puerta del Sol (2017), work for which he received the XXIV Andalusia Critics Award and the XIX City of Cartagena Historical Novel Award, Tiempos de esperanza (2019), winning novel of the second edition of the Edhasa Historical Narratives Award, Sentinel of Dreams (2021) and Venus in the mirror (2023).
In January 2020, Emilio Lara received the 2019 Culture Award, you can see it HERE, in 2022 he received the Linares Legatus Historical Novel Award, and is part of the Association of Writers with History.
Articles by Emilio Lara:
A theory about the historical novel in Todoliteratura
The forgotten neighborhood of letters in Jaén. published in ABC Sevilla on 5/22/2019
Emilio Lara directed the historical novel course in 2019 at the University of Baeza. You can see the news in the newspaper 20 minutes: The historical novel, reasons for success.
The writer Emilio Lara delivered in May 2019 the conference on the "Oath of the Constitution by H.M. the Queen Regent Doña María Cristina", the work of Francisco Jover and completed by Joaquín Sorolla. The last of the conferences in the cycle "Art and History in the Senate", which has been organized by the Upper House in collaboration with the Association of Writers with History, with the aim of taking a journey through the History of Spain through the pictorial work of the Senate. You can listen to it here.
In November 2019, Emilio Lara received the Caecilia Prize for Letters in its XV edition. You can see the news here: El Ideal and he was also named Confraternity of Honor of the Cofradía de la Buena Mesa, the oldest in Andalusia, as you can read the news in the Diario de Jaén
