Hendrik van Nievelt Plattillo (Viña del Mari, 1963) is a historical fiction writer and a commercial engineer by the Adolfo Ibáñez University, with a postgraduate degree by the University of Navarra and a master’s degree in history by the Gabriela Mistral University. He has had a prolific trajectory as a company consultant and as a professor.

His passion for the Middle Age and his condition as a stubborn traveler are the driving force for his books. He has published the non-fiction book El fin de la sociedad medieval y la peste negra (Origo, 2016) and the novel El fin de nuestro tiempo (Letrame, 2021). His last novel, El misterio del barco blanco (Editorial Click, 2025), was shortlisted for the Doña Urraca Award for Best Historical Fiction.