Malú Huacuja del Toro

Who is Malú Huacuja del Toro?

Malú Huacuja del Toro is a Mexican novelist´, playwright and screenwriter.

She was born in Mexico City. Her first novel, Crimen sin faltas de ortografía published when she was 25, was judged best finalist in the Plaza & Janés First International Crime Novel Competition in Spanish. She has published five novels, three short-story collections, and two screenplays in Spanish.

She is the author of the first "anti-soap opera" broadcast on Mexican television: Amor por televisión. It was a parody of Latin American soap operas and the Mexican "star system". She has sold numerous satirical, fiction and crime stories for TV and radio programs in Mexico, like the radio mystery series Tirando a matar as well as political cabaret shows, plays like The Sky Below, and screenplays, like El Amor de tu Vida SA winner of the Audience Award at the Semana de Cine Iberoamericano, 1997, and "Rencor tatuado" to be directed by awarded Mexican movie-maker Julián Hernández.