Carlos Fidalgo won an award for his first novel, Helmand's Hole, a circular story set in the war in Afghanistan. His second novel, La Sombra Blanca is a ghost story that takes place in the trenches of the First World War and has again received the support of critics and readers. Journalist for Diario de León, where every Thursday he writes the column Cuarto Creciente. Fidalgo is also the author of the short story collections El País de las Nieblas and Tierra Inside and Other Shipwreck Tales, published in digital format, as well as Black September.