Biografía:
Since an early age, she studied to become what she eventually turned herself into: one of greatest poetesses of the Americas.She wrote children's plays and movie scripts. Her first novel, Down to a T (1989) became such a big hit that moviemaker Alfonso Arau made a movie with a screenplay written by the author herself. The film clinched the work as one of the biggest blockbusters of all time. Down to a T caught on for the incredible atmosphere created by the author to tell the story of an impossible and everlasting love trapped in the middle of pots and frying pans, that is, inside a kitchen and its many charms. It's not a case of magic realism but rather straightforward magic, instead.The novel has been translated in over thirty languages and in 1994; the author won the ABBY Awards (American Bookseller Book of the Year), granted for the first time ever to a foreign writer. She has kept on writing other books like The Law of Love (1995) and Intimate Subtleness (1998), a compilation of short stories coupled with recipes in which the author resumes her thesis that the whole world can be changed from a kitchen counter.
