Mercedes Cebrián is a Spanish writer and translator.
Biography
Mercedes Cebrián holds a licentiate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, a master's degree in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, and one in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a literary creation scholar at the Residencia de Estudiantes of Madrid from 2002 to 2004, and of Ledig House, the, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Valparaíso Foundation, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation. She has written for various media outlets, such as the La Vanguardia supplement Culturas, Babelia and El Viajero of El País, and her texts have appeared in the literary magazinesTuria, ', Gatopardo, ', and Letras Libres, as well as Columbia University's Circumference. She has been a columnist for the newspaper Público. Cebrián began her writing career with prose, but in the first half of the 2000s she also opted for poetry. In this regard, the author explains: Her book of short stories and poems El malestar al alcance de todos was published in 2004. After the publication of La nueva taxidermia, a book that brings together two novellas, from El Cultural commented: Mercedes Cebrián has been associated with the Nocilla Generation, an evaluation with which she does not agree, although she recognizes that with her "there are points of intersection, such as an interest in talking about the contemporary world." In 2017 the translator and professor Yolanda Morató accused Mercedes Cebrián and of the plagiarism of her translation and edition of Georges Perec's . Cebrián denied this outright. She also refused to accept mediation from the Association of Translators, which offered to work out a ruling on the alleged plagiarism if both parties accepted its arbitration. The controversy had an impact on social networks and websites, in cultural journals, and in the press itself, as well as in translation trade publications, such as that of the Literary Translators Club of Buenos Aires, with input from Jorge Fondebrider.
Publications
El malestar al alcance de todos, stories and poems, Caballo de Troya, Madrid, 2004,
Mercado común, poems, Caballo de Troya, Madrid, 2006,
13 viajes in vitro, chronicles, Blur Ediciones, Madrid, 2008,
Cul-de-sac, short stories, Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2009
La nueva taxidermia, Mondadori, Barcelona 2011, ; containing two novellas:
* Qué inmortal he sido and Voz de dar malas noticias
Oremos por nuestros pasaportes, anthology, Mondadori Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2012; containing: El malestar al alcance de todos, Mercado común, La nueva taxidermia, and an assorted "bonus track",
El genuino sabor, novel, Literatura Random House, Barcelona, 2014,
Verano azul: unas vacaciones en el corazón de la transición, essay, Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2016,
Madrid, con perdón, anthology of texts about Madrid by Elvira Navarro,,,,, Jimina Sabadú, Antonio J. Rodríguez, Óscar Esquivias, Natalia Carrero, Grace Morales,, Iosi Havilio, and ; Caballo de Troya, 2012,
