Mercedes Monmany (Barcelona). Degree in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Literary critic and essayist specialized in contemporary literature, and European in particular. Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic, has been editor, advisor of publications and literary criticism in the main Spanish newspapers and magazines. He is currently a member of several writing boards for cultural magazines, such as Revista de Libros, Sibila and La Alegría de los Naufragios. Organizer of numerous cycles and meetings both in universities and in various cultural institutions, curator of anthological exhibitions on great universal writers (for example, Nobel Prize for Literature Isaac Bashevis Singer, Frenchman Jules Verne, or GT di Lampedusa), has also translated Authors such as Leonardo Sciascia, Attilio Bertolucci, Francis Ponge, Valerio Magrelli and Philippe Jaccottet.