Carmen Boullosa

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Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. The author of fifteen novels, her most recent English translations include Before and Texas: The Great Theft. Deep Vellum will publish Heavens on Earth in December.
  • The cover to The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa

    The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa

    Carmen Boullosa
    Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2020. 181 pages. IN HER SUCCINCT yet electrifying homage to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa conceptualizes the conti…
  • The cover to Heavens on Earth by Carmen Boullosa

    Heavens on Earth by Carmen Boullosa

    Carmen Boullosa
    Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2017. 384 pages.“This book is composed of three different narratives. For reasons that I do not understand, it was given to me to turn into a novel.” These words of a fictitious a…
  • The cover to Before by Carmen Boullosa

    Before by Carmen Boullosa

    Carmen Boullosa
    Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 104 pages. It has taken twenty-seven years for Antes, Carmen Boullosa’s second novel, to reach an English audience. Published in 1989, the novel earned…
  • Tamas Galambos, Summer, 1981, oil on canvas. A detail from Galambos’s painting also appears on the cover of García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude reprinted by Penguin London in 2000.

    Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)

    November 2016
    Carmen Boullosa
    Tamas Galambos, Summer, 1981, oil on canvas. A detail from Galambos’s painting also appears on the cover of García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude reprinted by Pengu…

  • Texas by Carmen Boullosa

    Carmen Boullosa
    Mexico City. Alfaguara. 2013. ISBN 9786071123688Through the intricate plot and multitude of characters, both principal and peripheral, Carmen Boullosa’s novel Texas seems to score a dire…