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Line 1: {{short description\|Mexican poet, novelist and playwright\|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources\|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person \| name = Carmen Boullosa \| image = Carmen Boullosa (2006) by Guenter Prust.jpg ~~\| image_size =~~ \| caption = Carmen Boullosa (2006) \| birth_name = Line 12 ⟶ 13: \| resting_place = \| resting_place_coordinates = ~~\| residence =~~ \| nationality = \| other_names = Line 20: \| occupation = Poet, novelist playwright \| title = ~~\| salary =~~ ~~\| networth =~~ \| term = \| predecessor = Line 27 ⟶ 25: \| party = \| boards = ~~\| religion =~~ \| spouse = [[Mike Wallace (historian)\|Mike Wallace]] \| children = 2, ~~Juan Aura.~~including [[María Aura]] \| parents = \| relatives = Pablo Boullosa, Pedro Boullosa }} '''Carmen Boullosa''' (born September 4, 1954, in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]) is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. It has been praised by a number of writers, including [[Carlos Fuentes]],<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1994/11/23/cultura/785545221_850215.html\|title=Fuentes: "Hay que levantar los muros que separan la literatura en español"~~\|first=Ediciones El\|last=País~~\|date=23 November 1994~~\|publisher=~~\|via=elpais.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213010347/https://elpais.com/diario/1994/11/23/cultura/785545221_850215.html\|archivedate=13 December 2017~~\|df=~~\|newspaper=El País}}</ref> [[Alma Guillermoprieto]], [[Roberto Bolaño]]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://old.clarin.com/suplementos/cultura/2001/03/25/u-00301.htm\|title=Un narrador en la intimidad\|website=old.clarin.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nodead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405120534/http://old.clarin.com/suplementos/cultura/2001/03/25/u-00301.htm\|archivedate=2017-04-05\|dfaccess-date=2017-12-12}}</ref> and [[Elena Poniatowska]], as well as publications such as ''[[Publishers Weekly]]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/carmen-boullosa.html\|title=Books by Carmen Boullosa and Complete Book Reviews\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213011429/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/carmen-boullosa.html\|archivedate=2017-12-13~~\|df=~~}}</ref>''. ==Early life== ~~Carmen~~ Boullosa was born on September 4, 1954, in Mexico City, Mexico.<ref name="congressbio">{{cite web\|title=Carmen Boullosa (Mexico) (1954-)\|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/n91068055/carmen-boullosa-mexico-1954/\|website=Library of Congress\|accessdate=February 5, 2017\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206104356/https://www.loc.gov/item/n91068055/carmen-boullosa-mexico-1954/\|archivedate=February 6, 2017~~\|df=~~}}</ref> ==Career== Boullosa has published eighteen novels.<ref name="congressbio"/> Though all different from one another, on theme and form, Boullosa´'s style has a distinctive personality. One of her novels, ''Son vacas, somos puercos'' (1991, translated into English in 1997 as ''They're Cows, We're Pigs''<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/books/new-noteworthy-paperbacks-307823.html\|title=New & Noteworthy Paperbacks\|first=Scott\|last=Veale\|date=18 March 2001\|~~publisher=\|deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213011045/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/books/new-noteworthy-paperbacks-307823.html\|archivedate=13 December 2017~~\|df=~~\|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>) is narrated in the first person by an old man looking back on his life. He was kidnapped and sent from his native France on a slave ship to the [[Caribbean\|West Indies]] at the age of thirteen. To gain his freedom, he joins a group of pirates (or "pigs"), allowing Boullosa to compare two very different societal and political systems—traditional Europe and carefree pirates. In ''La milagrosa'', a novel written in 1993, the protagonist is a girl who has the power to heal the sick and perform other miracles while she sleeps. She falls in love with Aurelio Jimenez, a detective sent to discredit her, even though she fears that her powers will disappear if she spends time with people. It ends ambiguously, leaving an unsolved murder without closure. ''Duerme'', another popular work published in 1995, tells the story of Claire, a French woman whose mother was a prostitute. Attempting to escape the same profession, she arrives in Spain dressed as a man. To save a subject of the Spanish king, she reveals herself as a female and prepares to take his punishment of death by hanging. Beforehand, however, she is wounded in the left breast and her blood is replaced by water from the lakes of Mexico City. The water's magical powers make it possible for her to survive the punishment. Boullosa is also well known for her ''Teatro herético'' (1987), a compilation of three parodies in play format—''Aura y las once mil vírgenes'', ''Cocinar hombres'', and ''Propusieron a María''. The first tells the story of a man called by God to "deflower" eleven thousand virgins in his life, so that heaven's overpopulation problem might be addressed, since the women will have to wait in purgatory for a time. The man then uses his sexual encounters as material for his television commercials and becomes a successful advertising agent. ''Cocinar hombres'' tells the story of two girls who find themselves to have become young adult witches overnight, so as to fly over the earth tempting but not satisfying men. Finally, the third play satirically recounts the conversation between [[Saint Joseph\|Joseph]] and [[Mary, the mother of Jesus\|Mary]] before Mary gives birth to [[Jesus]] and ascends to heaven. ==Awards== * 2019, [[Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana]] ==Personal life== Boullosa ~~has~~had two ~~children—~~children, Juan Aura and actress [[María Aura]], ~~and Juan Aura—with~~with her former partner, [[Alejandro Aura]]~~—and~~. She is now married to author [[Mike Wallace (historian)\|Mike Wallace]].{{citation needed\|date=September 2017}} ==Works== Line 52: ===Poems=== * ''Hamartia o Hacha'', Editorial Hiperión-UANL, 2015.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.elnorte.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=602646&md5=0e802949307ef6e05c781bce4f88eb9e&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe\|title=Es de valientes leer poesía.- Boullosa\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104144518/http://www.elnorte.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=602646&md5=0e802949307ef6e05c781bce4f88eb9e&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''La patria insomne'', Editorial Hiperión, Madrid, 2012.,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hiperion.com/index.php/libreria/poesia-hiperion/la-patria-insomne-detail\|title=poesía Hiperión : La patria insomne\|website=www.hiperion.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nodead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104143005/http://www.hiperion.com/index.php/libreria/poesia-hiperion/la-patria-insomne-detail\|archivedate=2016-11-04\|dfaccess-date=2016-11-04}}</ref> {{ISBN\|9786074337211}} * ''Allucinata e Selvaggia, Poesia scelte 1989-2004''. A cura di Marta Canfield. Ed. Lietocolle, Florence, Italy, 2008. {{OCLC\|875245553}} * ''Salto de mantarraya (y otros dos)'', Fondo de Cultura Económica, {{ISBN\|9789681674014}}, México, 2004.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.elfondoenlinea.com/Detalle.aspx?ctit=013376L\|title=Fondo de Cultura Económica\|website=www.elfondoenlinea.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104204651/https://www.elfondoenlinea.com/Detalle.aspx?ctit=013376L\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''La bebida'', Fondo de Cultura Económica, {{ISBN\|9789681674014}}, {{ISBN\|9789681665807}}, Mexico, 2002.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.elfondoenlinea.com/Detalle.aspx?ctit=013349L\|title=Fondo de Cultura Económica\|website=www.elfondoenlinea.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104204256/https://www.elfondoenlinea.com/Detalle.aspx?ctit=013349L\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''Salto de mantarraya'', illustr. Philip Hughes, trans. Psiche Hughes, The Old School Press, England, 2002. * ''Agua'', con dibujos de Juan Soriano, Taller Martín Pescador, México, 2000. Jardín Elíseo, Elyssian Garden, trad. Psiche Hugues, litografías de Phillip Hughes, Monterrey, México, 1999. Line 71: ===Books=== * ''El libro de Eve,'' Editorial Alfaguara, México, 2020. English translation: ''The Book of Eve,'' translated by Samantha Schnee, Deep Vellum, 2023.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://store.deepvellum.org/products/the-book-of-eve\|title=The Book of Eve - Deep Vellum Publishing\|website=deepvellum.org}}</ref> * ''El libro de Ana'', Siruela Ediciones, Madrid, 2016,.<ref>''Texas'', Editorial Alfaguara, México.</ref> Editorial Alfaguara, México.2016. English translation: ''The Book of Anna,'' translated by Samantha Schnee, Coffee House Press 2020.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/letras/2016/07/19/ya-no-hay-tantas-kareninas-boullosa\|title="Ya no hay tantas Kareninas": Boullosa\|date=19 July 2016\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104214143/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/letras/2016/07/19/ya-no-hay-tantas-kareninas-boullosa\|archivedate=4 November 2016~~\|df=~~}}</ref><ref>[https://www.pressreader.com/argentina/newsweek-en-español/20160808/282170765535065]{{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215003033/https://www.pressreader.com/argentina/newsweek-en-espa%C3%B1ol/20160808/282170765535065 \|date=2018-02-15 }}</ref> * ''Texas'', Editorial Alfaguara, México. English translation: ''TEXAS'', translated by Samantha Schnee, Deep Vellum, 2014.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://deepvellum.org/product/texas-the-great-theft/\|title=Texas: The Great Theft - Deep Vellum Publishing\|website=deepvellum.org\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102204838/http://deepvellum.org/product/texas-the-great-theft/\|archivedate=2016-11-02~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''Las paredes hablan'', Ediciones Siruela, Madrid, Autumn, 2010.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_libro=1455\|title=Ediciones Siruela\|website=www.siruela.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104142453/http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_libro=1455\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''El complot de los románticos'', Ediciones Siruela, Madrid, 2009.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?&id_libro=1251\|title=Ediciones Siruela - El complot de los Románticos de Carmen Boullosa\|website=www.siruela.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104142135/http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?&id_libro=1251\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''La virgen y el violín'', Ediciones Siruela, Madrid, 2008.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_libro=1207\|title=Ediciones Siruela\|website=www.siruela.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104142448/http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_libro=1207\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''El velázquez de París'', Ediciones Siruela, {{ISBN\|9788498410563}}, Madrid, 2007.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_autor=40\|title=Ediciones Siruela\|website=www.siruela.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104142533/http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_autor=40\|archivedate=2016-11-04~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''La novela perfecta'', Editorial Alfaguara, México, 2006.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero47/novperfe.html\|title=Laura R. Loustau: Tecnología y literatura en La novela perfecta, de Carmen Boullosa- nº 47 Espéculo (UCM)\|website=pendientedemigracion.ucm.es\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222011611/http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero47/novperfe.html\|archivedate=2015-12-22~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''La otra mano de Lepanto'', Ediciones Siruela, Madrid, 2005. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2005, {{ISBN\|9789681674625}}. ''A Outra Mâo de Lepanto'', translated to the Portuguese by Paulo César Thomaz, Editora Palindromo, São Paulo, Brasil, September, 2006.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://siruela.com/catalogo.php?id_libro=1684&completa=S\|title=Ediciones Siruela - La otra mano de Lepanto de Carmen Boullosa\|website=siruela.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114234257/http://siruela.com/catalogo.php?id_libro=1684&completa=S\|archivedate=2016-11-14~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''De un salto descabalga la reina'', Editorial Debate, Madrid, 2002. English version: ''Cleopatra Dismounts'', Grove Press, 2003, trans. Geoff Hargreaves.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://quarterlyconversation.com/mass-menstruation-and-lesbian-orgies-the-womens-writing-of-carmen-boullosa\|title=Mass Menstruation and Lesbian Orgies: The Women's Writing of Carmen Boullosa - Quarterly Conversation\|website=quarterlyconversation.com\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407230558/http://quarterlyconversation.com/mass-menstruation-and-lesbian-orgies-the-womens-writing-of-carmen-boullosa\|archivedate=2011-04-07~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''Treinta años'', Alfaguara, 1999. English version: Leaving Tabasco, Grove Press, New York, 2001, trans. Geoff Hargraves.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/books/it-s-raining-toads.html\|title=It's Raining Toads\|first=Sandra Tsing\|last=Loh\|date=13 May 2001\|~~publisher=\|deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104144656/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/books/it-s-raining-toads.html\|archivedate=4 November 2016~~\|df=~~\|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> * ''Cielos de la tierra'', Alfaguara, 1997. English version: Heavens on Earth, trans. Shelby Vincent, forthcoming at Deep Vellum, 2016, {{ISBN\|978-1-941920-44-2}}.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://deepvellum.org/product/heavens-on-earth/\|title=Heavens on Earth - Deep Vellum Publishing\|website=deepvellum.org\|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105140732/http://deepvellum.org/product/heavens-on-earth/\|archivedate=2016-11-05~~\|df=~~}}</ref> * ''Quizá'', Monte Avila Editores, Caracas, 1995. * ''Duerme'', Alfaguara, Madrid, 1994. German: Der fremde Tod, edition Suhrkamp, 1994, trans. Susanne Lange. French: Duerme, L’eau des lacs du temps jadis, L’atalante, 1997, and Le serpent a plumes 1999, trans. by Claude Fell. Italian: ''Dorme'', Ed. Le Lettere, 2000, trans. Antonella Ciabatti. Dutch: De Schone Slaapster, Arena, Amsterdam, 1995, trans. Aline Glastra von Loon. Will soon appear in Arab. Line 91: * ''Son vacas, somos puercos: filibusteros del mar Caribe'', Ediciones ERA, Mexico City, 1991, {{ISBN\|9789684113381}}. English version: They're Cows, We're Pigs, Grove Press, New York, 1997, trans. Lee Chambers. German: ''Sir sind Kühe, wir sind Schweine'', edition Surhkamp, trans. Erna Pfeiffer, 1991; French: ''Eux les vaches, nous les porcs'', Le serpent a plumes, Paris, 2002, trans. Claude Fell. * ''Antes'', Vuelta, Mexico City, 1989. German version: ''Verfolgt'', trans. Susanne Lange, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin, 1996. Chinese: ed. 1999. French: ''Avant'', Les Allusifs, trans. Sabine Coudassot-Ramírez, Quebec, Canadá, 2002. ''Before'', translated by Peter Bush, Deep Vellum, forthcoming 2016. Several reprints at Alfaguara, Punto de Lectura, {{ISBN\|9786071123756}} * ''Mejor desaparece'', Océano, Mexico City, 1987. English version: ''Just disappear'', trans. Christi Rodgers, VDM Verlag, 2009.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/fileadmin/dokumentenbibliothek/Iberoamericana/40-2010/40_Melgar.pdf \|title=Archived copy \|accessdate=2016-11-04 \|~~deadurl~~url-status=nolive \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105032144/http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/fileadmin/dokumentenbibliothek/Iberoamericana/40-2010/40_Melgar.pdf \|archivedate=2016-11-05 ~~\|df=~~ }}</ref> ~~<br />~~ ~~== External Resources ==~~ [https://www.loc.gov/item/99389605/ Carmen Boullosa Reading from her work for the Archive of Literature] of the [https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/ Hispanic Division] at the [https://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress], Washington D.C. on April 19, 1999. ~~Ms. Boullosa reads selections from three of her books of poems: ''La bebida'' (2002), ''La salvaja'' (1988), and ''La delirios'' (1998).~~ ==References== Line 114 ⟶ 107: {{DEFAULTSORT:Boullosa, Carmen}} [[Category:Mexican women poets]] [[Category:~~Guggenheim~~Mexican ~~Fellows~~feminists]]▼ [[Category:Mexican feminist writers]] [[Category:1954 births]] Line 122 ⟶ 116: [[Category:New York University faculty]] [[Category:City College of New York faculty]] ▲[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]] [[Category:Mexican women academics]] [[Category:Mexican women novelists]] [[Category:Mexican dramatists and playwrights]] [[Category:~~Women~~Mexican women dramatists and playwrights]]