Education
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
director journalist psychologist writer
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
She is one of the most prolific and daring writers within her generation and in the Spanish language. Her work deals mainly with the issue of diversity (human and animal) and its obstacles: the striving for domination, with its derivatives (authoritarianism, violence, discrimination). Her style features humor and irony, the distrust of all official discourse, subversion, the need to go beyond both sexual and theatrical boundaries, and the use of language itself.
Her plays have been staged in the Americas, and her novel Maine (Louisiana mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) (Moi in French) has been translated into 11 languages and published in 33 countries.
Sabina Berman Goldberg was born on August 21, 1955 in Mexico City, Mexico where she currently resides. She was born into an Eastern European Jewish family, the third or fourth child and daughter of Enrique Berman, who emigrated during the government of President Lazaro Cárdenas and was established in Mexico, becoming a major industrial and the psychoanalyst Raquel Goldberg.
She studied Mexican literature and psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She was trained in the theatrical arts
In 1995, she was co-director of the film Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman, with Isabelle Tardan.
She also wrote and co-produced the film Backyard, which represented Mexico at the 2010 Oscars. Among other successes are the plays Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, Moliere, Freud Skating, eXtras. These have been staged in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Canada and United States.
Recently, she wrote the film The History of Love for Alfonso Cuarón and Light for Alejandro González Iñarritu.
Her most recent novel Maine (Louisiana mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo –original titleand Moi in French) has been published in 11 languages in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, United States of America, England and Israel. lieutenant addresses the issue of the relationship of species, particularly the relationship between humans and species that do not use verbal language.
Currently she is the host of the television show Sha la lá, a weekly television series of interviews with artists, politicians, scientists and literary figures in Mexico, broadcast on Televisión Azteca, on Channel 13.