Bárbara Mujica
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Bárbara Mujica

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Barbara (Bárbara) Mujica, from Los Angeles, California, is a professor of Spanish literature emerita at Georgetown University. Her latest novel is MISS DEL RIO, is based on the life of Dolores del Río, Mexico's first female international film star. I AM VENUS, based on the enigma of the Rokeby Venus, the only extant nude of Spanish painter Diego de Velazquez. Her novel FRIDA was an international bestseller that appeared in eighteen languages. Depicting the tumultuous relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, FRIDA was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate. Mujica's novel SISTER TERESA, based on the life of Saint Teresa de Avila, was adapted for the stage by Coco Blignaut of the Actors Studio in Los Angeles. Mujica's other book-length fiction includes THE DEATHS OF DON BERNARDO (novel), SANCHEZ ACROSS THE STREET (stories), FAR FROM MY MOTHER'S HOME (stories), and IMAGINING IRAQ (stories). Mujica has written several scholarly books, among them TERESA DE AVILA, LETTERED WOMAN, TERESA DE JESUS: MISTICISMO Y FEMINISMO, and WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND EPISTOLARY EXCHANGE IN THE CARMELITE REFORM: THE DISCIPLES OF TERESA DE AVILA. Her edited volumes include: WOMEN WRITERS OF EARLY MODERN SPAIN: SOPHIA'S DAUGHTERS; A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF EARLY MODERN SPANISH THEATER: PLAY AND PLAYTEXT; STAGING AND STAGE DECOR: EARLY MODERN SPANISH THEATER; and COLLATERAL DAMAGE: WOMEN WRITE ABOUT WAR. I AM VENUS was a winner in the 2012 Maryland Writers' Association fiction competition in the Historical Fiction division and was a quarter-finalist in the 2020 ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel Fiction Competition. IMAGINING IRAQ was selected as "one of the favorites of 2021" by Washington Independent Review of Books. Three of Mujica's short stories have been winners of the Maryland Writers' Association National Fiction Competition: "Jason's Cap" (first prize 2015), "Ox" (second prize 2016), and "Imagining Iraq" (third prize 2010). Her story "Ahmed the Tailor" was a quarter-finalist in the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Story Story Competition. Mujica has also won the Trailblazers Award from Dialogue on Diversity, the Pangolin Prize for Fiction, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, and the E. L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition. Mujica is an Artist-in-Residence" at the Braid Theater in Los Angeles.
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