Carmen boullosa biography
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Carnal Language | An Interview with Carmen Boullosa
The first time inom encountered Carmen Boullosa’s work was in January 2006, when Words Without Borders’ managing editor wrote to me in a panic: a translator had flaked on delivering an excerpt from Carmen’s recently published La novela perfecta, a sci-fi novella about a washed-up writer who meets an inventor and “writes” his book with a new technology that transcribes the book directly from his imagination. It was completely unlike anything I had ever read, and I was hooked after the first page; it was a tight deadline but I said yes.
A few months later, Carmen asked me to translate an excerpt from her latest novel, La otra mano de Lepanto (which the magazine Semana rated one of the 100 best works of Spanish-language literature written in the past twenty-five years) for the PEN International Congress in Berlin. inom took a look at the text, which is a playful tale about a sword-wielding, flamenco-dancing heroine during the tum
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Carmen Boullosa
Mexican poet, novelist and playwright
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Carmen Boullosa (2006) | |
| Born | September 4, 1954 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, novelist playwright |
| Spouse | Mike Wallace |
| Children | 2, including María Aura |
| Relatives | Pablo Boullosa, Pedro Boullosa |
Carmen Boullosa (Latin American Spanish pronunciation:[ˈkaɾmembowˈʝosa]; born September 4, 1954, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. It has been praised by a number of writers, including Carlos Fuentes,[1]Alma Guillermoprieto, Roberto Bolaño[2] and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly[3].
Early life
[edit]Boullosa was born on September 4, 1954, in Mexico City, Mexico.[4]
Career
[edit]Boullosa has published eighteen novels.[4] Though all different from one
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Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels, two of which were designated the Best Novel Published in Mexico by the prestigious magazine Reforma—her second novel, Before, also won the renowned Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel; and her novel La otra mano de Lepanto was also selected as one of the Top 100 Novels Published in Spanish in the past 25 years. Her most recent novel, Texas: The Great Theft won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award, and has been nominated for the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet, playwright, essayist, and cultural critic, Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York, and her books have been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chines