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, and sold the entire first edition within two months. She has published seven novels, four short-story collections, and two screenplays 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 more than twenty political cabaret shows produced during the 90's in Teatro Bar El Hábito in Mexico City, directed by Jesusa Rodríguez, and 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. Her screenplay "A God for Cordelia" (film adaptation of her novel) was selected for the Script Reading and Good-To-Go programs of the 13th Annual Female Eye Film Festival in Ontario, Canada, in 2015. Her screenplay Rencor tatuado written especially for multi-awarded director Julián Hernández will be shot in Mexico City in November 2016.

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. Her play "Gigantic Details" won among the Official Finalists of the 2015 New York Screenplay Contest (Stage Play Category).

Works

Novels

Short story collections

Theater (originally written in English)

Screenplays

References

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