Sabina Berman

Sabina Berman ( born August 21, 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and film and theater director.

Life

Born as the third of four children and daughter of Polish-Jewish émigrés Enrique Berman and Raquel Goldberg, Sabina Berman studied after high school Mexican literature and psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana.

During her studies mid-seventies she started writing theater texts in which they dealt with issues about personal freedom and the female identity. Her first, autobiographical novel La Bobe ( The grandmother ) was published in 1990. Therein, the author describes her childhood in the colony of Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico City. The focus is the Yiddish -speaking grandmother.

For their plays, television plays, poems and prose texts Sabina Berman has received numerous awards. It is among other four-time winner of the National Prize for Theater in Mexico ( Premio Nacional de México Dramaturgia s ) has received the Premio Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and twice the Premio Nacional de Periodismo (1999 and 2007).

Today Sabina Berman publishes anthologies of women writers, commented murders of women and writes screenplays. "In our country there is not just machismo, there is also a very strong feminist consciousness ," says Berman. She wants to encourage women in Mexico to " the permanent withstand attack and also not to become a poisonous snake. "

In July 2012, Sabina Berman received the LiBeraturpreis for her novel The woman who plunged into the heart of the world. The jury praised their objective and perceptive, sometimes surreal and always humorous storytelling.

The woman who plunged into the heart of the world ( original title: La Mujer que dentro del Buceo Corazón del Mundo ) is Sabina Berman's second novel and the first German -language translation. He has been published in 11 languages ​​and in more than 33 countries, including Spain, France, USA, England and Israel.

Awards

  • 2012 LiBeraturpreis

Novels

  • La Bobe (1990 )
  • La Mujer que dentro del Buceo Corazón del Mundo (2010) The woman who plunged into the heart of the world. German -language translation of Angelica Ammar published by S. Fischer Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-021606-9
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