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Irene Vallejo Moreu (Zaragoza, 1979) is a Spanish philologist and writer. Her most notable award for one of her works has been the Premio Nacional de Ensayo (2020) for El infinito en un junco.

Career
She has a doctore in Classical Philology by the Universities of Zaragoza and Florence. She is dedicated to investigate and spread knowledge of classic authors, doing the latter by writing in journals as Heraldo de Aragón and El País. Her columns have been gathered together and published in El pasado que te espera y Alguien habló de nosotros.

Her fist novel is La luz sepultada, published in 2011. It tells a story set in Zaragoza in 1936, close to the beginning of the Spanish civil war. Her second novel is El silbido del arquero. She has also written children's and youth literature with El inventor de viajes and La leyenda de las mareas mansas. Her short story, El mal invisible, was included in the antology of Aragonese female writters Hablarán de nosotras (2016).

In 2020 she was awarded with the Premio Nacional de Ensayo for her book El infinito en un junco. She was the fith female writter to be given this award since its creation in 1945.

Works

 * Terminología libraria y crítico-literaria en Marcial (2008)
 * El pasado que te espera (2010)
 * La luz sepultada (2011)
 * El inventor de viajes (2014)
 * La leyenda de las mareas mansas (2015)
 * El silbido del arquero (2015)
 * Alguien habló de nosotros (2017)
 * El infinito en un junco (2019)
 * Manifiesto por la lectura (2020)