Manel Loureiro
Manel Loureiro is a Spanish author.
Background
Manel Loureiro is a writer, journalist, and former lawyer born in Pontevedra, Spain on December 30, 1975. He earned a law degree at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and has worked as a television presenter in the Television de Galicia1 and as a screenwriter. He collaborates with the daily newspapers of Pontevedra, newspaper ABC.2 and World.3, and is a regular contributor to the Cadena SER and to GQ magazine's Spanish edition. El Confidencial has called him the Spanish Stephen King.Novels
Apocalypse Z series
His first novel, Apocalypse Z #1: The Beginning of the End, began as a popular blog before its publication and eventually become a bestseller in several countries, including Brazil, Italy, and Spain. AmazonCrossing published book one in English, in October 2012, and the book was translated into Galician in 2013. A film adaptation has also been created in 2024.Loureiro has written two sequel novels in the Apocalypse Z series: Apocalypse Z #2: Dark Days, and Apocalypse Z #3: The Wrath of the Just. Books two and three have been translated into English, Italian, and Portuguese, and book two was translated into Galician in 2014.