Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City on 30 September 1950. Trained as an educator and in children's theatre, she co-founded a workshop for theatre and children's literature attached to the Ministry of Education, wrote television programmes for young people and in 1983 founded a centre for artistic workshops for children. Urged on by the filmmaker Alfonso Arau, then her husband, she wrote for the cinema from 1985. She later headed culture in Coyoacán, then was elected federal deputy for Morena.

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• NovelLike Water for ChocolateComo agua para chocolateLaura Esquivel · 1989Literature