Sabina Berman


Sabina Berman Goldberg is a writer and journalist. Her work deals mainly with issues related to diversity and its obstacles. She is a four-time winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico and has twice won the National Journalism Award. Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel.

Biography

The start of Berman's life was marked by the emigration to Mexico of her parents, who were Polish Jews, under the presidential administration of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río. Her father, the industrialist Enrique Berman, lost all of his family members to World War II. Her mother is the psychoanalyst Raquel Goldberg. Berman was born in the Hospital Español of Mexico City, where she was raised together with two brothers and one sister, decisive factors in her life. She was a member of Mexico's national youth tennis team. She studied psychology and Mexican literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana.

Career

In 1979, she coauthored La tía Alejandra, a horror film directed by Arturo Ripstein. Her screenplay was awarded a Premio Ariel. In 1995, she co-directed the film Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda together with Isabel Tardan. She also wrote and co-produced the film Backyard, which represented Mexico in the 2010 Academy Awards.
In 2014, she wrote the film Gloria, a biopic of Mexican singer Gloria Trevi, directed by Christian Keller that was a Premio Ariel nominee for best original screenplay. November 2015 marked the premiere of her most recent film, Macho, directed by Antonio Serrano.
She authored the screenplays for the films The History of Love for Alfonso Cuarón and Light for Alejandro González Iñarritu.
Her novel, Me has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel. Her most recent book, Darwin's God, revisits the protagonist of Me to engage in a struggle for Darwin's legacy.
She was co-producer of the television program Shalalá together with Katia D'Artigues, broadcast on Televisión Azteca. She currently hosts the program Berman: Otras Historias on ADN40.
As a journalist, she is a bi-weekly contributor to Revista Proceso and a weekly columnist for El Universal, where she publishes political fables. She has written articles for Vanity Fair magazine in Spanish and for the magazine Quién.

List of works