
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.
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))
"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"
— Kirkus Reviews
"Laura Esquivel fills her fiction with signature sensuality and magical realism"
— BookPage
"Laura Esquivel’s story evokes the transformative power of magical realism"
— Los Angeles Times
"Laura Esquivel writes in a trademark magical and bittersweet style"
— Booklist