Malú Huacuja del Toro

Malú Huacuja del Toro (born 1961) is a Mexican novelist´, playwright and screenwriter.

She was born in Mexico City. Her first novel, Crimen sin faltas de ortografía (Crime without Spelling Mistakes) 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[1] in Spanish.

She is the author of the first "anti-soap opera" (anti-novella) broadcast on Mexican television: Amor por televisión (Imevisión 1988, directed by Alejandro Gamboa More about this.). 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 (Shooting to Kill, directed by Lynn Fainchtein Nucleo Radio Mil, 1989) as well as political cabaret shows, plays like The Sky Below (directed by Jesusa Rodríguez), and screenplays, like El Amor de tu Vida SA (The Love of Your Life, Inc.) winner of the Audience Award at the Semana de Cine Iberoamericano, 1997), and "Rencor tatuado" ("Tattooing Resentment") to be directed by multi-awarded Mexican movie-maker Julián Hernández in 2011.

She now lives in New York City. She writes both in English and Spanish. Her first play in English, Celebrities Shouldn't Have Children, was produced and directed in New York City by Venezuelan artist Leonard Zelig, in 2004. Her short story Diabolical Compassion was selected finalist in the 2002 Arts & Letters Fiction Contest.

Works

Novels

• Crimen sin faltas de ortografía (Crime Without Spelling Mistakes), Océano, México, 1995; Hobby and Work, Italy, 1999; Plaza y Valdés, http://www.plazayvaldes.com, México, 2000)
• Un cadáver llamado Sara, (Op-Ed sabadoUnomasuno newsletter, 1987-88)
• Un Dios para Cordelia (A God for Cordelia), Océano 1995; Plaza y Valdés, México, 2004; Recorded Books, USA, 2004
• La lágrima, la gota y el artificio (Tears, Drops, and Special Effects), Ariadna, México, 2006; Recorded Books, USA, 2007[2], Plaza y Valdés, México, 2010 (Reprinted).
• La invención del enemigo (The Invention of the Enemy), Plaza y Valdés, México, 2008.

Short story collections

• Herejía contra el ciberespacio (Heresy against Cyberspace), Océano, 1997
• Álbum de la obscenidad (The Album of Obscenity), Plaza y Valdés, 2002
• Crónicas anticonceptivas (Contraceptive Chronicles), Colección Cuadernos de El Financiero, México, 2006

Theater (originally written in English)

• Celebrities Shouldn't Have Children (Gene Frankel Theater, 2004).

Screenplays

• El Amor de tu Vida S.A. (Plaza y Valdés, 1997)
• Los artistas de la técnica[3] (Plaza y Valdés, 1997)

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