Fabrizio Mejía Madrid (born 1968) is a Mexican writer and journalist from

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Fabrizio Mejía Madrid writes for the Mexican political magazine '' Proceso''. He also contributes in the magazines ''Letras Libres'', ''Gatopardo'', ''

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'', and the cultural pages of the ''

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'' newspaper. His work was included in the anthologies ''The Mexico City Reader'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), and ''A Ustedes les consta'', the reunion of Mexican chronicles edited by

Carlos Monsiváis Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the country's progressive sectors. ...

(Era, 2006). For fifteen years he has written a literary column in the Mexican newspaper ''

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''. He has published three books of chronicles; ''Pequeños actos de disobediencia civil'' (1996), ''Entre las sábanas'' (1995) and ''Salida de emergencia'' (Random House, 2007), and two novels, ''Hombre al agua'' (Joaquín Mortiz, 2004) winner of the Antonin Artaud Prize for best novel, and ''El rencor'' (Planeta, 2006). Recently a committee in

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, International Capital of the Book, shortlisted Mejía Madrid, along with

Jorge Volpi Jorge Volpi (full name Jorge Volpi Escalante, born July 10, 1968) is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as ''In Search of Klingsor ( En busca de Klingsor)''. Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s wi ...

and

Álvaro Enrigue Álvaro Enrigue (born 6 August 1969) is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and academic. He is the author of six novels, three books of short stories, and one book of essays. Early life The son of a Jalisco lawyer and a chemist ...

, as one of the 39 writers under forty that will define Latin American literature in the 21st century.Hay Festival, Bogotá 39, 2007.

Charges of plagiarism

On April 27, 2019, writer

Guillermo Sheridan Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto (born 27 August 1950) is a Mexican literary critic, scholar and public commentator. Life and work Sheridan was born in Mexico City. He was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia in 1986. He was ...

published an article entitled "Fabrizio Mejía Madrid: el arte de no dar crédito" in the Mexican literary magazine

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, in which he accuses Mejía Madrid of plagiarizing numerous portions of the book Representations of the Intellectual by

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. Sheridan documents how, in the essay "El Intelectual", Mejía Madrid takes extended portions of Said's original text without crediting the author, or citing Said's work. In a more recent piece in the same publication

has again demonstrated the extensive nature of Mejía Madrid's plagiarisms, this time by exposing how he has taken material from authors such as Deleuze, Isaacson, Douglas Day, Alain Corbin, and Giorgio Agamben without quoting them or giving any sort of credit. On October 6, 2019, Mejía Madrid addressed these accusations on his column in '' Proceso'', and

replied again.

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