Mercedes Abad (born 1961, in
Barcelona
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Spain
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) is a Spanish journalist and short story writer.
Early life and career
She graduated in
Journalism
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from the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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after studying for her baccalaureate at the
Liceu Francès. Following several incursions into the world of
cinema
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Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
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and
theatre
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, 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)
References
External links
As I fallshort story
1961 births
Living people
Writers from Barcelona
20th-century Spanish journalists
Women writers from Catalonia
Spanish women short story writers
Spanish short story writers
21st-century Spanish journalists
20th-century Spanish women
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