Abstract
[...]Alas de fuego can be read as an allegory of its own historical moment and not just as a fantasy for young adults. Born in Valencia in 1977, she studied philology at the University of Valencia before pursuing a doctorate with a dissertation on Jerónimo Fernández's chivalric novel Belianís de Grecia [Belianis of Greece] (1545, 1579).3 Well-known in the world of fantastic literature as the author of many works for children and young adults, as her novels tend to be marketed, she received the first of two "Barco de Vapor" ["Steamboat"] prizes at age twenty-one and has gone on to write, as of September 2011, more than twenty-five books, many of which have been translated into other languages.