Sabina Berman

Sabina Berman Goldberg (born August 21, 1955, in Mexico City) 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 (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Juan Ruiz Alarcón) and has twice won the National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo). 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. 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.