Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel in Mexico City in 2013
Born	(1950-09-30) 30 September 1950 (age 74) Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Genre	Magical realism, science fiction

Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés (born September 30, 1950)^[1] is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and politician, serving in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party from 2015 to 2018.^[1] Her first novel Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film.