Fabrizio Mejía

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

Works

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid writes for the Mexican political magazine Proceso.^[1] He also contributes in the magazines Letras Libres, Gatopardo, Chilango, and the cultural pages of the Reforma 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 (Era, 2006). For fifteen years he has written a literary column in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. 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 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 Latin American literature in the 21st Century.Hay Festival, Bogotá 39, 2007.

See also

• Bogota39

References