Mercedes Cebrián

Mercedes Cebrián. Her latest book of essays and fictions is Burp: Gastronomical Writings (Chatos inhumanos, 2017). She is also the author of the essay Verano azul: unas vacaciones en el corazón de la transición (Alpha Decay, 2016), the poetry collection Malgastar(La Bella Varsovia, 2016) and the novel El genuino sabor (Literatura Random House, 2014). Her texts on art and literature have appeared in Cultura/s (La Vanguardia), Babelia (El País), Letras Libres, Gatopardo and Indian Quarterly. She collaborates with the supplement El Viajero de El País. She has translated to Spanish Alan Sillitoe and Georges Perec, and has been a resident writer at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, at the Civitella Ranieri Center and at the Fondazione Santa Maddalena. She holds a Master’s Degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of London (Birkbeck) and the University of Pennsylvania. During 2018 she is the guest editor of the Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House).

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