Sabina Berman
Sabina Berman (born August 21, 1955 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican writer and film and theater director.
Life
Born the third of four children and the daughter of Polish-Jewish emigrants Enrique Berman and Raquel Goldberg, Sabina Berman studied Mexican literature and psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana after graduating from high school.
During her studies in the mid-seventies, she wrote her first theater texts, in which she dealt with topics about personal freedom and female identity. Her first, autobiographical novel La Bobe ( The Grandmother ) was published in 1990. In it, the author describes her childhood in the colony of Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico City. The focus is on the Yiddish-speaking grandmother.
Sabina Berman has received numerous awards for her plays, television plays, poems and prose texts. She is a four-time winner of the National Prize for Theater in Mexico (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia en México), has received the Premio Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and twice the Premio Nacional de Periodismo (1999 and 2007).
Today Sabina Berman publishes anthologies of female writers, comments on murders of women and writes scripts. "Our country is not just macho , there is also a very strong feminist consciousness," says Berman. She wants to encourage women in Mexico to "withstand the constant attack and not become a poisonous snake."
In July 2012, Sabina Berman received the LiBeraturpreis for her novel The Woman Who Dived Into the Inner World . The jury praised her factual and astute, sometimes surreal and always humorous narrative style.
The woman who dived into the heart of the world (original title: La Mujer que buceó dentro del Corazón del Mundo ) is Sabina Berman's second novel and the first German translation. It has been published in 11 languages and in over 33 countries including Spain, France, USA, England and Israel.
In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year, for her work as a screenwriter .
Awards
- 2012 LiBeraturpreis
Novels
- La Bobe (1990)
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La Mujer que buceó dentro del Corazón del Mundo (2010)
- The woman who dived into the heart of the world. German translation by Angelica Ammar published by S. Fischer Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-021606-9
Web links
- Works in the union catalog of the GBV
- Literature by and about Sabina Berman in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Moments of happiness under water Neue Zürcher Zeitung , accessed on July 18, 2012.
- ↑ LiBeraturpreis 2012 to Sabina Berman Börsenblatt, accessed on July 18, 2012.
- ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berman, Sabina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico City , Mexico |