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Mercedes Monmany

Writer, literary critic and essayist.

 

She has been an editor and publication adviser, has worked for different cultural institutions and has directed courses devoted to European literatures. She sits on the editorial committees of several cultural journals, including Sibila and Revista de Occidente, and on the juries of literary awards such as the Café Gijón de Narrativa, the Málaga de Novela, the G. T. di Lampedusa de Sicilia and the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award in Warsaw. Her publications include, among others, the essays Por las fronteras de Europa. Un viaje por la narrativa de los siglos XX y XXI, with a prologue by Claudio Magris, Del Drina al Vístula. Lecturas centroeuropeas, Sin tiempo para el adiós. Emigrados y exiliados en la literatura del siglo XX and Algo quedará de mí. Historia de diez heroínas de la Resistencia en el campo de Ravensbrück. Her work Ya sabes que volveré. Tres grandes escritoras en Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky, Gertrud Kolmar y Etty Hillesum won the 2018 José Manuel Caballero Bonald international essay prize.

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03/10/2026
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