Laura Esquivel
1950
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: magic realism
country of citizenship: Mexico
languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish
occupation: screenwriter, novelist, writer, politician, educator
position held: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés (born September 30, 1950) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and politician, serving in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party from 2015 to 2018. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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