About this Event
Author MARTA PÉREZ-CARBONELL will be in conversation with The Write Salon co-founder VANESSA FABIANO. The event will include selected readings followed by audience Q&A.
We’re pleased to collaborate with Librería Parenthesis for this event at their Madrid space in Lavapiés. The conversation will be held in English.
I MADE YOU UP INSIDE MY HEAD is a novel about the dangerous power of storytelling, set in motion by a chance encounter
On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has adapted the harrowing childhood experience of an acquaintance for his controversial recent bestseller. The translator has a complicated history of her own. Over the course of a long night, the travelers share food, drink, and confidences that range across space and time, resurfacing old losses and betrayals and blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
A deft, unsettling, brilliantly orchestrated debut by a rising international star, I Made You Up Inside My Head asks how far we are allowed to borrow—and bend—the truth to our own ends.
MARTA PÉREZ-CARBONELL is a fiction writer and an academic. She is an associate professor at Colgate University, NY, and received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London.Her first monograph was The Fictional World of Javier Marías - Language and Uncertainty (Brill 2016). She has published peer-reviewed articles in several academic journals. Recently, she published an edited volume entitled Imágenes de aflicción - Literatura, cine y género (Iberoamericana 2026) and directed a special issue on Rosa Montero's fiction for the literary magazine Turia. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Telva, The Objective, Letras Libres, Quimera and other literary magazines.
In 2024, she published her first novel, Nada más ilusorio (Lumen), which will see the light in 13 other countries. This year she published her second novel, Mañana seguiré viva (Lumen).
VANESSA RUBRIA FABIANO is a Swiss-Italian-Spanish fiction writer and brand strategist for scale-ups. She is the author of the story collection Chinese on the Beach (Ybernia, 2025) and the novel My Yolanda. Her short fiction has appeared in My Thaxis Magazine, East of the Web, and the Lightship Anthology of Prize-winning New Writing.
She is the co-founder of The Write Salon, a global literary community, where she has interviewed and moderated conversations with authors including Michael Scott Moore, Katrine Engberg, and Ursula Scavenius. She earned a degree in East Asian Studies and International Relations from Columbia University and holds an MBA.
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PARENTHESIS is a bookshop in Lavapiés, opened in November 2024 and run by Eitan and Giedre. It’s a bilingual space, with around 30% of the books in English and 70% in Spanish.
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Librería Parenthesis, 30 Calle de Valencia, Madrid, Spain
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