Laura esquivel biography

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, essayist, and screenwriter who has made noted contributions to Latin-American literature. Her first novel, "Like Water for Chocolate," became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film.

Born on September 30, , in Mexico City, Mexico, Esquivel began writing while working as a kindergarten teacher. She wrote plays for her students and wrote children's television programs during the s and s. Her first novel, "Like Water for Chocolate," is an imaginative and compelling combination of novel and cookbook.

Esquivel has continued to show her creative flair and lyrical style in her later work. Accompanied by a collection of music, her second novel "The Law of Love" combined romance and science fiction. "Between the Fires" featured essays on life, love, and food. Her novel, "Malinche," explores the life of a near mythic figure in Mexican history-the woman who served as Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés's interpreter and mistress.

In , Esquivel ran as preliminary candidate of the Local Council in District XXVII of Mexico City for the PRD. In , she was elected Federal Representative for the Morena Party. She has also served as head of the Mexico City Cultural Committee and m

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Laura Natalia Esquivel

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Laura Esquivel
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Birth name	Laura Natalia Esquivel[1]
Also known as	Laura Esquivel
Born	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Origin	Buenos Aires
Genres	Pop, latin appear, teen pop
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, pianissimo, ukulele
Years active	–present
Labels	EMI Televisa Music; Independent

Musical artist

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Biography

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Laura Esquivel: (?)—: Novelist

Attending the Escuela Normal de Maestros in Mexico City, a teachers' college, Esquivel worked toward a career in early childhood education. The student counterculture of the late s, which affected Mexico as strongly as it did the United States, left its mark on Esquivel. "I was pretty much a hippie," she told Southwest Review. "I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change." After college Esquivel became a kindergarten teacher. Her own creative potential was reawakened when she resolved to stage plays with her young students and discovered that few plays in Spanish for young children were available. She solved the problem by writing new ones herself.

Esquivel married a young filmmaker, Alfonso Arau, from whom she took a screenwriting course. Growing more and more interested in drama and film herself, Esquivel wrote scripts for children's television programs in the late s and early s. She penned the screenplay for a film directed by Arau, Chido One, El taco de oro, and was nominated for an Ariel award, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar, for best screenplay in Esquivel then began work on the novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), w