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Carmen boullosa early life
Carmen Boullosa (Mexico City, 1954) is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets and playwrights.
Carmen Boullosa nació en la Ciudad de México en 1954.

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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, Chinese, and Russian.

Books by This Author

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Carmen Boullosa (Mexico City, 1954) is the author of nineteen novels (with Deep Vellum: Texas: The Great Theft, translated by Samantha Schnee; Before, translated by Peter Bush; and Heavens on Earth, translated by Shelby Vincent), poetry collections (Hatchet, translated by Lawrence Schimmel), plays, and essays. She has collaborated with visual artists and created artist’s books for her own work (printed at her press, Taller Tres Sirenas, in the eighties). Her work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo Carrillo Gil, and the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana in Mexico, the Sala Ruiz Picasso in Madrid, and elsewhere.

She is the recipient of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the Ibargüengoitia Award in Mexico; the Anna Seghers and the LiBeratur Prize in Germany; the Novela Café Gijón Prize, the Rosalía de Castro Prize, and the Casa de América de Poesía Americana Prize in Spain; and the Typographical Era Award in the United States. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a DAAD Fellow, and a Cullman Center Fellow. The show Nueva York on CUNY-TV has won

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Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa (Mexico City, 1954) is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets and playwrights. The prolific author, who has had literally scores of books, essays and dissertations written about her work, has been lauded by critics on several continents. “As playful as a mischievous Puck,” says Elena Poniatowska; she has “a heart-stopping command of language,” says Alma Guillermoprieto; “one of the most dazzling of Latin America’s new generation,” according to Publishers Weekly; “Mexico’s best woman writer.” Roberto Bolaño.

Some of her seventeen novels deal with historical themes – the world of Moctezuma, the early Colonial period in Mexico City, the life of pirates in the 17th Century Caribbean, the era of Cervantes – and some have been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian. The most recent translation, published by Coffee House Press, is El libro de Ana (The Book of Anna), translated by Samantha Schnee.

Her novel Cleopatra Dismounts, (at Grove Press) “lavishly reimagines the life of the legend