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Laura Esquivel

出生: September 30, 1950 – Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter whose work blends romance, family history, food, and magical realism to explore tradition, gender, and identity. She is best known for Like Water for Chocolate, an international bestseller adapted for film, which helped bring contemporary Mexican literature to a global audience.

传记与作者历程

Laura Esquivel emerged from Mexico City with a formation that joined pedagogy and performance. Born there in 1950, she trained in preschool education at the Escuela Nacional de Maestros and also pursued studies in theatre, dramatic creation, and film. Before she was widely known as a novelist, she worked as a teacher and screenwriter, founded the Centro Interdisciplinario de Invención Permanente for children’s artistic workshops, and developed a storytelling practice shaped by young audiences, popular media, and everyday Mexican life. That background helps explain why her fiction would later feel both literary and immediately accessible. ((https://sil.gobernacion.gob.mx/Archivos/Documentos/2022/11/asun_4446206_20221123_1669219508.pdf))

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名言

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Si en Como agua para chocolate decía que somos lo que comemos, en la segunda parte digo también que somos lo que sembramos
-Laura Esquivel regresa a la cocina de ‘Como agua para chocolate’
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La búsqueda después de la pandemia es justamente esa, es volver a nuestros huertos orgánicos
-Laura Esquivel y su proyecto culinario “Hermanando fogones”
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El simple acto de cocinar es un acto de amor
-Laura Esquivel, escritora mexicana: "La cocina es el último reducto que queda para ejercer la generosidad"
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Comencé a escribir narrativa, porque mi experiencia como guionista me había dejado bastante frustrada
-Laura Esquivel, la cocina y la revolución
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El sexo no solo es de cuerpos, a veces basta una mirada
-El sexo no es solo de cuerpos
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Aprender a amar todo, inclusive lo que se odia, que es lo más difícil
-Hay que aprender a amar incluso a lo que se odia
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Por mucho tiempo se nos hizo pensar que en la cocina no sucedía nada
-Esquivel: Por mucho tiempo se nos hizo pensar que en la cocina no sucede nada
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Crecí viendo a mi mamá viendo cocinar, que era la actividad predominante en mi familia y su cocina era el centro de la familia
-Regresar “al fuego” de la cocina, la postura de Laura Esquivel
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Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story
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"Laura Esquivel brought magic realism into the kitchen and the bedroom"

TIME

"Laura Esquivel is the princess of modern Latin literature"

Publishers Weekly

"Laura Esquivel mixes an unexpected blend of ingredients with fascinating cultural history"

Library Journal

"Laura Esquivel’s first novel is funny, raunchy, sensual and hugely romantic"

Chicago Tribune

"Laura Esquivel is the megaselling author best known for Like Water for Chocolate"

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"Laura Esquivel fills her fiction with signature sensuality and magical realism"

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"Laura Esquivel’s story evokes the transformative power of magical realism"

Los Angeles Times

"Laura Esquivel writes in a trademark magical and bittersweet style"

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