Mercedes Abad (born 1961, in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

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) is a Spanish journalist and short story writer.

Early life and career

She graduated in

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from the

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona (; Spanish: ; ; UAB) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. , the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, lif ...

after studying for her baccalaureate at the Liceu Francès. Following several incursions into the world of

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and

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

, in 1986 she won the Premio ''La sonrisa vertical'', a prize for erotic narrative with her book of short stories ''Ligeros libertinajes sabáticos''. She has published other collections of short stories: ''Felicidades conyugales'' (1989), ''Soplando al viento'' (1995) and more recently ''Amigos y fantasmas'' (2004, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa NH Short Story Award for the best book of short stories in 2004); the novel ''Sangre'' (2000), and the humorous essay ''Sólo dime dónde lo hacemos'' (1991). Furthermore, she is the author of several plays and of various adaptations, including ''XXX'', for the company

La Fura dels Baus La Fura dels Baus () is a Spanish theatrical group founded in 1979 in Moià, Barcelona (Spain), known for their urban theatre, use of unusual settings and blurring of the boundaries between audience and actor. "La Fura dels Baus" in Catalan me ...

. She also works as a translator and currently collaborates with different media outlets. Her short story ''Pasión defenestrante (Uncontrolled Passion)'' was included in ''Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers'', an anthology edited by Montserrat Lunati, together with a translation into English. ''Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers'' edited by Montserrat Lunati. Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics, 2018 .

Books

* ''Slight Sabbath debaucheries'' (1986) * ''Conjugal Congratulations'' (1989) * ''Just tell me where we do it'' (1991) * ''Blowing in the wind'' (1995) * ''A dose of TNT'' Short story published in the Anthology ''The stories that count'' (1998) * ''Blood'' (2000) * ''Title yourself'' (2002) * ''Friends and ghosts'' (2004) * ''The neighbor below'' (2007) * ''Legends of Bécquer'' (2007) * ''Half a dozen robberies and a couple of lies'' (2009) * ''The fat girl'' (2014) * ''House for sale'' (2020)

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