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Laura Esquivel
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1950
Mexican writer and screenwriter, author of Like Water for Chocolate, a novel turned blockbuster film and a phenomenon of culinary magical realism.
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About Laura Esquivel
Birth
1950
First book
1989
Years writing
37
Mexican writer and screenwriter, author of Like Water for Chocolate, a novel turned blockbuster film and a phenomenon of culinary magical realism.
She began as a kindergarten teacher and a children's-television writer before publishing her first novel.
Like Water for Chocolate (1989) has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold millions of copies.
Her former husband Alfonso Arau directed the film adaptation of Like Water for Chocolate in 1992.
She served as a Mexican congresswoman for the Morena party between 2018 and 2021.
Each chapter of Like Water for Chocolate opens with a Mexican recipe woven into the plot.
