Jesús Barranco
Jesus Barranco Reyes is a Spanish writer and forestry engineer from the Canary Islands.
Education
Barranco graduated as a forestry engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2002, and as a wildfire manager MSc from the University of Lleida in 2015. He is finishing a geography and history degree at the National University of Distance Education.Writing career
Barranco's first known book was a wildfire-fighting handbook, Manual de lucha contra incendios forestales. It was first distributed in 2018 through Amazon and was later republished in 2025 by Ediciones Singularidad.In 2023, he published Grandes Liadas de la Historia, a humorous and sarcastic book about various historical disasters, released by Caligrama. After three editions, the book was revised and republished by Ediciones Singularidad in 2024. In 2025, this book was also published in English, in a translation by Timothy Bruce Allen.
Also in 2024, Barranco published a compilation of episodes related to women in warfare, titled Grandes guerreras de la historia, written in a similarly sharp and humorous style and focused on the lives of women involved in armed conflicts.
In 2025, he published Guerras absurdas de la historia, a book about singular and hardly justifiable conflicts that began for highly unusual reasons.