Malú Huacuja del Toro
Malú Huacuja del Toro (born 1961) is a feminist, awarded Mexican novelist´, playwright and screenwriter. Biography She was born in Mexico City. She’s the first crime novel author of Latin America with a feminist twist. She has published eight novels, four short-story collections, and two screenplays in Spanish. 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 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 20 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 or Cabaret Prehispánico (commissioned