Sabina Berman Goldberg

Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel. Backyard and Gloria were both the Mexican nomination for the Academy Awards's Best Foreign Film category, though neither was accepted for consideration at the 82nd or the 87th Academy Awards.

• Birth Name — Sabina Berman Goldberg • Born — 21 August 1955 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Education — Ibero-American University • Occupation — * Writer • novelist • screenplayer • Relatives — Shanik Berman (sister-in-law)

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. She was a member of Mexico's national youth tennis team. She studied psychology and Mexican literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana.

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. In 2015, she wrote 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 (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) 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.

• Digger, screenwriter (2026) • Macho, screenwriter (2016) • Gloria, screenwriter (2014) • El dios de Darwin [Darwin's God] (2014) • La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo [Me] (2010) • Backyard, screenwriter (2009) • Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud [Freud skating] (2002) • Molière [Molière] (2000) • Mujeres y poder, cowritten with Denise Maerker [Women and power] (2000) • La bobe [The grandmother] (1997) • Amante de lo ajeno (1997) • Berman (1995) • Un grano de arroz [A grain of rice] (1995) • Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda [Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman] (1995) • Volar [Fly] (1993) • En el nombre de Dios [In the name of God], work published in the magazine Tramoya (1993) • Articles and short stories for the weekly culture section of the newspaper La Jornada (1992) • La grieta [The crack], a play published in the magazine Tramoya (1992) • Lunas [Moons], prose poetry, (1989) • Muerte súbita [Sudden death], theater, (1989) • La maravillosa historia de Chiquito Pingüica [The wonderful story of Chiquito Pingüica], in the anthology The Noah's Ark [El arca de Noé] by Emilio Carballido (1984) • Rompecabezas [Puzzle] (1982)