Fabrizio Mejía

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Fabrizio Mejía Madrid was born in Mexico City in 1968. He writes for the mexican magazine Proceso. He also contributes in the magazines Letras Libres, Gatopardo, Chilango and the cultural pages of the Reforma newspaper. He is part of the anthologies The Mexico City Reader (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) and A Ustedes les consta, the reunion of mexican choronicles edited by Carlos Monsiváis (Era, 2006). For fifteen years he has a literary column in the mexican leftist newspaper La Jornada. He has released three books of chronicles, Pequeños actos de desobediencia civil (1996), Entre las sábanas (1995) and Salida de emergencia (Random House, 2007); and two novels, Hombre al agua (Joaquín Mortiz, 2004) that won de Antonin Artaud Prize for best novel and deserved to be translated into french and german, and El rencor (Planeta, 2006). Recently a committee in Bogotá- International Capital of the Book shortlisted Mejía Madrid, along with Jorge Volpi and Álvaro Enrigue as one of the 39 writers under forty that will define latinamerican literature in tne XXI Century.