José Carlos Somoza Ortega (born 13 November 1959) is a Spanish author.

His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994.

Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain.

When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.