Women Writer's Initiative

Mexico

DE ANHALT, Nedda G.

Birth date: February 5, 1934
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
Education: Studied Civil Rights at the Universidad de la Habana and literature at Sarah Lawerence College in New York. She has a Master's degree in Latin American studies at the Universidad de las Americas.
Professional Career: Narrator, translator, literary and cinematic critic. She has written and published many of her film and literary works in newspapers and Mexican and international magazines.

Works

• El banquete. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1991.

• El correo del azar.              : Oasis, 1984.

ANTAKI, Ikram

Birth date: July 9, 1945
Birthplace: Seven Sources, Damask, Syrian
Education: Studied anthropology at the Practical School of High Studies.
Professional Career: Essayist and poet. She is currently an anthropologist for the University of Paris VII.

Works

• Las aventuras de Henna en la historia. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, 1984.

BELTRAN, Rosa

Birth date: March 15, 1960
Birthplace: Distrito Federal, Mexico
Education: Studied Hispanic literature at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and received a doctorate in literature from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Professional Career: Author and translator. She has had her work published in numerous Mexican magazines including, Dialogos, El Faro, Vuelta, and Revista de la Universidad. Between 1991-92, she was the scholarship holder of the Fondo Nacional para la cultura y las artes.

Works

• La corte de los ilusos. Mexico: Grupo Editorial Planeta, 1995.

• La espera. Mexico: CREA, 1986.

BERMAN, Sabina

Birth date: August 21, 1956
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Education: Studied psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and theatrical direction at the Centro de Arte Dramatico.
Professional Career: Poet and playwright. She has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Artisticos since 1994. She has also written many plays and works for such magazines as Punto de Partida, Communidad, and El Financiero.

Works

• Moliere. Mexico: Plaza y Janes Editores, 2000.

• Amante de lo ajeno. Mexico: Oceano, 1997.

• El suplicio del placer. Mexico: Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes, 1994.

• Un grano de arroz. Mexico: Seix Barral Mexico, 1994.

• Bobe. Mexico: Editorial Planeta Mexicana, 1990.

• Muerte subita: obra de teatro original. Mexico: Editorial Katun, 1988.

• Lunas. Mexico: Editorial Katun, 1988.

• Poemas de agua. Mexico: Editorial Shanik, 1986.

BOULLOSA, Carmen

Birth date: September 4, 1954
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Education: Studied Hispanic language and literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Professional Career: Poet and author. She has worked in the Colegio de Mexico as editor of the Diccionario de Espanol en Mexico. She has also founded the Editorial Workshop, Tres Sirenas in 1983. In 1989, she won the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for her novel, Antes.

Works

• Prosa rota. Mexico: Plaza y Jones Editores, 2000.

• Treinta anos. Col. del Valle, Mexico: Alfaguara, 1999.

• La Delirios. Mexico: Fonde de Cultura Economica, 1998.

• Cielos de la tierra. Mexico: Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, 1997.

• Quiza. Caracas, Venezuela: Monte Avila Editores Latino americana, 1995.

• Duerme. Madrid: Santillana, 1994.

• Milagrosa. Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1993.

• Llanto: novelas imposibles. Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1992.

• El medico de los piratas: bucaneros y filibusteros en el caribe. Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 1992.

• Son vacas, somos puercos. Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1991.

• Salvaja. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1989.

• Antes. Mexico: Vuelta, 1989.

• Teatro heretico. Puebla, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, 1987.

• Mejor desaparece. Mexico: Oceano, 1987.

• Mi version de los hechos. Mexico: Arte y Cultura Ediciones, 1987.

• Ingubernable. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1979.

BRACHO, Coral

Birth date: May 22, 1951
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Education: Has a degree in Hispanic language and literature and has studied in Mexico, England, and France.
Professional Career: She is a poet who has had her works published in such magazines as Punto de Partida, La Cultura de Mexico, and Versus. She won the Premio Nacional de Poesia de Aguascalientes in 1981 for her book, El ser que va a morir.

Works

• Bajo el destello liquido, Poesia 1977-81. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1988.

• El ser que va a morir. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1982.

• Peces de piel fugaz. Mexico: La Maquina de Escribir, 1977.