David Hernández de la Fuente (born 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish writer, translator and university lecturer who is specialized in Classics. Biography 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 (2005), supervised by Carlos García Gual, and Sociology (2011), supervised by Antonio López Peláez and Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo. 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. Currently, he is a Faculty Member of the Department of Classics at the Complutense University of Madrid. Fiction writing 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 . Essays and non-fiction 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