Sabina Berman
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Sabina Berman is a many faceted writer. Playwright, storyteller, essayist, film and theater director. She is recognized as the most prolific, original, and daring playwright of her generation in the Spanish language. Her work deals mainly with the issue of diversity (human and animal) and its obstacle: the striving for domination, with its derivatives (authoritarianism , violence, discrimination). In her style some constants stands out: the humor and irony, the distrust of all official discourse, the subversion, the need to go beyond both sexual and theatrical boundaries and the use of language itself. Four times prize winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia en México) and the Juan Ruiz de Alarcon Award (Premio Juan Ruiz de Alarcón), and has twice won the National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) (1999 and 2007). Her plays had been staged in the Americas and her novel Me (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) (Moi in French) has been translated into 11 languages and published in 33 countries.
She studied Mexican literature and psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She was trained as a theater person on stage.
In 1995, she was co-director of the film Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman, with Isabelle Tardan. She also wrote and co-produced the film Backyard, which represented Mexico at the Oscars 2010.
Among other successes are the plays Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, Moliere, Freud Skating, eXtras. These have been staged in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Canada and United States.
Recently, she wrote the film The History of Love for Alfonso Cuarón
and Light for Alejandro González Iñarritu
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Her most recent novel Me (La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo –original title- and Moi in French) has been published in 11 languages in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, USA, England and Israel. It addresses the issue of the relationship of species, particularly the relationship between humans and species that do not use verbal language.
Currently she is the host of the television show Sha la lá, a weekly TV serie of interviews with artists, politicians, scientists and literary figures in Mexico, broadcast on Televisión Azteca, on Channel 13.
Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud [Freud skating] (2002)
Molière [Moliere] (2000)
Mujeres y poder, cowritten with Denise Maerker [Women and power] (2000)
La grieta [The crack] (1999)
La bobe [The grandmother] (1997)
Amante de lo ajeno (1997)
Berman (1995)
Un grano de arroz [A grain of rice] (1995)
Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda [Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman] (1995)
Volar [Fly] (1993)
En el nombre de Dios [In the name of God], work published in the magazine Tramoya (1993)
Articles and short stories in the newspaper La Jornada (1992)
Volar [Fly], 4th Edition, cowritten with José Gordon (1992)
La grieta [The crack], work published in the magazine Tramoya (1992)
La bobe [The grandmother], 3rd Edition (1991)
La bobe [The grandmother] (1990)
Volar [Fly], 3rd Edition (1990)
Lunas [Moons], narrative poetry, 2nd Edition (1989)
Muerte súbita [Sudden death] (1989)
Lunas [Moons], narrative poetry (1988)
Volar [Fly], cowritten with José Gordon (1987)
Teatro de Sabina Berman [Sabina Berman’s teathre] (1985)
La maravillosa historia de Chiquito Pingüica [The wonderful story of Chiquito Pingüica], in the anthology The Noah’s Ark [El arca de Noé] of Emilio Carballido (1984)
Rompecabezas [Puzzle] (1982)
Biography
Sabina Berman Goldberg was born on August 21, 1955 in Mexico City where she lives. She was born into an Eastern European Jew family, third of four child and daughter of Enrique Berman, who emigrated during the government of President Lazaro Cárdenas and was established in Mexico, becoming a major industrial and the psychoanalyst Raquel Goldberg.She studied Mexican literature and psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She was trained as a theater person on stage.
In 1995, she was co-director of the film Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman, with Isabelle Tardan. She also wrote and co-produced the film Backyard, which represented Mexico at the Oscars 2010.
Among other successes are the plays Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, Moliere, Freud Skating, eXtras. These have been staged in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Canada and United States.
Recently, she wrote the film The History of Love for Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...
and Light for Alejandro González Iñarritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...
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Her most recent novel Me (La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo –original title- and Moi in French) has been published in 11 languages in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, USA, England and Israel. It addresses the issue of the relationship of species, particularly the relationship between humans and species that do not use verbal language.
Currently she is the host of the television show Sha la lá, a weekly TV serie of interviews with artists, politicians, scientists and literary figures in Mexico, broadcast on Televisión Azteca, on Channel 13.
List of works
La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo [Me] (2010)Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud [Freud skating] (2002)
Molière [Moliere] (2000)
Mujeres y poder, cowritten with Denise Maerker [Women and power] (2000)
La grieta [The crack] (1999)
La bobe [The grandmother] (1997)
Amante de lo ajeno (1997)
Berman (1995)
Un grano de arroz [A grain of rice] (1995)
Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda [Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman] (1995)
Volar [Fly] (1993)
En el nombre de Dios [In the name of God], work published in the magazine Tramoya (1993)
Articles and short stories in the newspaper La Jornada (1992)
Volar [Fly], 4th Edition, cowritten with José Gordon (1992)
La grieta [The crack], work published in the magazine Tramoya (1992)
La bobe [The grandmother], 3rd Edition (1991)
La bobe [The grandmother] (1990)
Volar [Fly], 3rd Edition (1990)
Lunas [Moons], narrative poetry, 2nd Edition (1989)
Muerte súbita [Sudden death] (1989)
Lunas [Moons], narrative poetry (1988)
Volar [Fly], cowritten with José Gordon (1987)
Teatro de Sabina Berman [Sabina Berman’s teathre] (1985)
La maravillosa historia de Chiquito Pingüica [The wonderful story of Chiquito Pingüica], in the anthology The Noah’s Ark [El arca de Noé] of Emilio Carballido (1984)
Rompecabezas [Puzzle] (1982)
External links
- Programa Sha la lá http://www.tvazteca.com/shalala/.
- Blog de Sabina Berman http://sabinaberman.blogspot.com/.
- La Jornada http://www.jornada.unam.mx/.