MANUEL MILLAN SANCHEZ

Manuel Millán Sánchez was born in the town of San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain. An Engineer by profession, he has devoted his career to energy, initially in the engineering and consulting sector before moving into international cooperation. This journey has taken him to live on four continents and work in more than fifty countries, always in the field of energy. For over a decade, he has worked as an energy specialist at the World Bank and as a professor of energy technologies at Johns Hopkins University.

In the literary field, in 2020 he was a finalist for the 52nd Ateneo de Sevilla Novel Prize with his work "La sombra de Ícaro" ("Icarus' shadow"). With his second novel, "La ciudad de las ilusiones" (published under the title "La ciudad infinita"), he was a finalist for the 2022 Premio Planeta. With his third and fourth novels, still unpublished, he was respectively a finalist for the 2024 Premio Azorín and a semifinalist for the 2025 Ateneo de Sevilla Prize, both under a pseudonym.