Irene Vallejo Moreu, born in Zaragoza in 1979, is a Spanish philologist, historian, and writer.

[3] Other work has consisted of articles published in the Spanish newspapers Heraldo de Aragón and El País, in which she mixes discussion of ancient writers and current events.

Some of these articles were eventually collected into two books, published under the titles El pasado que te espera and Alguien habló de nosotros.

[4] In 2020 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura en la modalidad de Ensayo (the National Prize of Literature in the Manner of the Essay) for her book El Infinito en un Junco – Infinity in a Reed (Published in English in 2022 as Papyrus), the fifth woman to win the prize since its creation in 1975.

In 2011, she published her first novel, La Luz Sepultada, set in Zaragoza in 1936 amid the buildup to the Spanish Civil War.