Name Sabina Berman Role Playwright | Parents Enrique Berman | |
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Books Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda, El suplicio del placer Awards Ariel Award for Best Original Story Nominations Ariel Award for Best First Work, Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction Movies Between Pancho Villa and, Backyard, Gloria, El arbol de la musica Similar People Katia D'Artigues, Carlos Carrera, Diana Bracho, Sofia Espinoza, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez | ||
Extras interviews with director actor bruno bichir playwright sabina berman
Sabina Berman Goldberg (Mexico City, August 21, 1955) is a writer and journalist. Considered to be Mexico's most critically and commercially successful contemporary playwright, Berman is one of the most prolific living writers in the Spanish language. Her work deals mainly with issues related to diversity and its obstacles. Her style tends toward humor and language, or the need to move beyond the limits of language. She is a four-time winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Juan Ruiz Alarcón) and has twice won the National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo). Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel.
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- Extras interviews with director actor bruno bichir playwright sabina berman
- Sabina berman
- Biography
- Career
- List of works
- Awards and Recognitions
- References
"In her plays, there are certain constants worthy of note: a taste for humor; a mistrust of official discourse and indeed, of all discourse in general; the need to surpass both sexual limits and those that apply to literary genres."
Sabina berman
Biography
The start of Berman's life was marked by the emigration to Mexico of her parents, who were Polish Jews, under the presidential administration of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río. Her father, the industrialist Enrique Berman, lost all of his family members to World War II. Her mother is the psychoanalyst Raquel Goldberg. Berman was born in the Hospital Español of Mexico City, where she was raised together with two brothers and one sister, decisive factors in her life. She was a member of Mexico's national youth tennis team. She studied psychology and Mexican literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
Career
In 1979, she coauthored La tía Alejandra, a horror film directed by Arturo Ripstein. Her screenplay was awarded a Premio Ariel.
In 1995, she co-directed the film Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda together with Isabel Tardan. She also wrote and co-produced the film Backyard, which represented Mexico in the 2010 Academy Awards.
In 2014, she wrote the film Gloria, a biopic of Mexican singer Gloria Trevi, directed by Christian Keller that was a Premio Ariel nominee for best original screenplay.
November 2015 marked the premiere of her most recent film, Macho, directed by Antonio Serrano.
She authored the screenplays for the films The History of Love for Alfonso Cuarón and Light for Alejandro González Iñarritu.
Outstanding among her theater plays are: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, Sudden Death, Molière, Freud Skating, eXtras (adaptation) and Testosterone. Her works have been staged in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Argentina, and Spain.
Her novel, Me (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel.
Her most recent book, Darwin's God, revisits the protagonist of Me to submerge her in an original, fascinating thriller about the struggle for Darwin's legacy.
She was co-producer of the television program Shalalá together with Katia D'Artigues, broadcast on Televisión Azteca.
She currently hosts the program Berman: Otras Historias which airs on Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on ADN40.
As a journalist, she is a bi-weekly contributor to Revista Proceso and a weekly columnist for El Universal, where she publishes political fables.
She has written articles for Vanity Fair magazine in Spanish and for the magazine Quién.