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In Conversation With Carmen Boullosa.

Carmen Boullosa was born in Mexico City on September 4, 1954. She graduated from the Iberoamericana University and the Autonomous University of Mexico with a degree in Spanish Language and Literature. In 1976 was awarded the Salvador Novo Scholarship.
From 1977 to 1979 she worked as an editor of the Spanish Dictionary of Mexico at the School of Mexico, and in 1979 she won a scholarship from FONAPAS from the National Institute of Fine Arts. In 1980 she founded the Workshop Tres Sirenas, dedicated to the editing of literature in short runs. That same year she received a scholarship from the Mexican Center of Writers, where she wrote her first novel: Mejor Desaparece.

From 1983 to 2000 she was the co-proprietor of a theatre-bar, El Cuervo. In 1991 she was awarded a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1995 she lived in Berlin, with her two children Juan and Maria, invited by the program for artists and resident writers of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
The theatre highlighted her work "Los Totoles," that premiered with great success. She participates in the public TV program "New York" for CUNY-TV, in which she interviews writers and artists.
Currently she lives between New York and Coyocán, Mexico, with her husband, the historian and Pulitzer prize winner Mike Wallace.