Carmen Boullosa
Author
1954 –
Who is Carmen Boullosa?
Carmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. Her work has been praised by a number of prominent writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly. She has won a number of awards for her works, and has taught at universities such as Georgetown University, Columbia University and New York University, as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York. She has two children -- Maria Aura and Juan Aura -- with her former partner, Alejandro Aura --and is now married to Mike Wallace, the Pulitzer-prize winning co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
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- Born
- Sep 4, 1954
Mexico City - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Profession
- Education
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
Hispanic Languages and Literature
(1972 - 1976)
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Lived in
- Mexico City
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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