Mercedes Cebrián

Mercedes Cebrián (born 29 May 1971) 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 (Hudson, New York), the Spanish Academy in Rome, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), the Valparaíso Foundation (Spain), and the Santa Maddalena Foundation (Italy).

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 magazines ''Turia'', ', ''Gatopardo'', '' Revista de Occidente'', 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 ' (as ''Me acuerdo''). 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 (such as ''El Cultural'' and ''Estado Crítico''), 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,
* ''Malgastar'', poetry, La Bella Varsovia, 2016,

As editor

* ''Madrid, con perdón'', anthology of texts about Madrid; Caballo de Troya, 2012,

Translations

* 2008 – '' The Architecture of Happiness'', by Alain de Botton (Lumen)
* 2008 – ', by Georges Perec (Impedimenta)
* 2009 – '' A Man Asleep'', by Georges Perec (Impedimenta)
* 2010 – ', by Georges Perec (Impedimenta)
* 2011 – ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'', by Alan Sillitoe (Impedimenta)
* 2011 – ''It Chooses You'', by Miranda July (Seix Barral)
* 2012 – '' The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner'', by Alan Sillitoe; prologue by Kiko Amat (Impedimenta)
* 2013 – '' The Universe Versus Alex Woods'', by Gavin Extence (Seix Barral)
* 2013 – ''Y revenir'', by Dominique Ané (Alpha Decay)
* 2013 – ''Sempre Susan'', by Sigrid Nunez (Errata Naturae)
* 2017 – ', by Georges Perec (Impedimenta)

References

External links

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1971 births
21st-century Spanish poets
21st-century Spanish women writers
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
English–Spanish translators
French–Spanish translators
Living people
Spanish translators
Spanish women poets
Spanish women short story writers
Spanish short story writers
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Writers from Madrid
21st-century translators