María Amparo Escandón
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Mara Amparo Escandón (born in Mexico City on June 19, 1957) is a Mexican-born American citizen.
She is a journalist, short story writer, screenwriter, advertising consultant, and film producer.
Her award-winning literary fiction is known for focusing on bi-cultural topics relating to Mexican immigrant immigrants moving over to the United States.
Her books are mainly focused on family bonds, death, forgiveness, faith, and self-discovery.
She investigates the dynamics of language in border subcultures and Spanglish's evolution.
Her modern and unique style of multiple voice narrations as well as her charmingly funny, quirky, and sympathetic stories with a feminine angle capture the magical reality of everyday life and place her among the top Latin American female writers.
Her work has been translated into over 21 languages and is currently read in more than 85 countries.
Life and education
Julio Escandón, her father, was a builder; Mara Amparo de Escandón, her mother, Mara Amparo de Escandón, was responsible for Mexico's Labor Department; and her mother, Mara Amparo de Escandón, was a construction company. Mara is the eldest of four children and spent her childhood in Mexico City, moving from one elementary school to the next due to discipline issues. Since she was seven years old, her vivid imagination led her to a lifetime of confusion, both at home and in school. That was before her grandmother, Mara Amparo Obrón, taught her the difference between lies and story telling. They are the same, but one is hurtful and the other is amusing," she said. The intention made the difference. As long as everyone knows you made them up, Escandón began to write and find a new medium for her fantasies. She was sent to study in rural Minnesota, near the pig farms, where she learned the English language at the age of thirteen. She read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garca Márquez, a Mexican immigrant, and began her career as a narrator under her authority.
Escandón studied Communications at Universidad Anáhuac and Universidad Nuevo Mundo in Mexico City from 1977 to 1982. She was briefly married to Luis Eduardo Gil and then moved to the United States, where she co-founded Acento, one of the country's largest independent Hispanic advertising companies, with Benito Martel, who would be her second husband. She returned to school, but in the field of visual arts. She studied ceramics at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California, from 1983 to 1985. She lived in the United States for ten years and had published a number of short stories in Spanish in 1993, then visiting UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) Extension to learn how to write in English. She was accepted to join the teaching staff just a year later, in 1994. She continues to teach Creative Writing and Magical Realism at UCLA Extension.
Escandón's ex-husband, Benito Martez-Creel, has two children (Zooey and Iraki) (divorced in 2006). Pedro Haas lives in Los Angeles, California, and Mexico City.
Literary career
Mara Amparo Escandón began working in the 1970s during the Latin American Boom. When she was sixteen, her first published short story appeared in the Mexican literary journal Plural in 1973. Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Pablo Neruda, Juan Rulfo, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garca, Alejo Carpentier, and others inspired her art. She wrote her first short stories from a male perspective after being convinced that men had greater chances to succeed as writers than women. It wasn't until she moved to Los Angeles in 1983 that she realized that women writers such as Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros had shifted her focus and concentrated on women's rights and the Mexican American experience in the United States.
Escandón, a California woman, began to explore her roots from an expatriate distance, like Pre-Columbian beliefs, women's place in society, gender representation, illegal immigration, US-Mexico relations, and government corruption, which she later referred to as "fiction" and non-fiction. Esperanza's Box of Saints, Simon & Schuster's first book, and its Spanish version, Santitos, were published by Plaza & Janés in 1999. The Box of Saints by Esperanza addresses the universal fear of losing a child, as well as a woman's search for identity and a trek that lead Esperanza, the lead actor, through smuggish brothels throughout Mexico and into Los Angeles. Escandón's book has been ranked as the top seller on the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List. According to Newsweek magazine, she has been selected writer to watch for 1999 and writer to watch for 2000 by the Los Angeles Times. González & Daughter Trucking Co. was published in English by Three Rivers Press in 2005 and in Spanish by Vintage Espaol under the heading Transportes González e Hija. It's held in a Mexican jail and the United States' highways. In a context of a hybrid border society, it addresses women's relationships, guilt, murder, passion, corruption, and forgiveness. Escandón's book explores her personal relationship with her own father, who died of a heart attack just three days after she had finished writing her manuscript. In Mexico's culture, she addresses paternal possessesiveness and gender double standards. The book also explores a linguistic reality in bicultural California, where the vernacular mixing of Spanish and English (Spanglish), as well as other sub-culture jargon, is explored.
L.A. is Escandón's third book. Weather, follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with mystery, deception, and betrayal against the backdrop of imminent evacuations during a season of drought and fire that should have otherwise been unavoidable but has now become normal. Los Angeles: Weather was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller.
Escandón has served as an advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters Labs in Mexico and Brazil, as well as the Fundación Contenidos de Creación Fiction Workshops in Barcelona, where she also works as a mentor for young upcoming minority writers at the PEN Center's Emerging Voices Program. In addition, she is one of the founding members of Frijolywood, the official Mexican Filmmakers' union in Hollywood.
Film career
Escandón wrote the screenplay Santitos, based on her book Esperanza's Box of Saints at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, based on her book Esperanza's Box of Saints. John Sayles was produced and directed in Mexico by Alejandro Springall. In 1999, the film was Mexico's third highest-grossing Mexican film, and it was also released in Spain and Latin America in January 2000. The film has been nominated in 14 film festivals around the world, including the Latin Cinema Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Film at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, Best Actress at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, Best Film at the San Diego International Film Festival, Best Actress at the Phoenix International Film Festival, Best Actress at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, Best Film at the Lincoln International Film Festival, Best Actress at the Monte Francisco International Film Festival, Best Actress at the Cannes International Film Festival de la Critique Français Film à laurée à à lavamp; Best Film at the Best Film at the Golden Film Festival de à Film at the Best Film Festival de Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de Film Festival de Lavogue Film Festival de Film Festival de la d'Amiens Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de la Critique Français Film Festival de à d'Amateur de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française La Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Film de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique Française la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique Français de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française à la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française à à la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française dance de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique de la Critique Française de la Critique de la Critique Française.
Escandón has recently completed a screenplay based on her book González & Daughter Trucking Co., and the film is now in production at her own production company, The Other Truth Productions.
Advertising career
Escandón began working as a copywriter at Gutiérrez Silva in Mexico City in 1982 while studying her diploma in Communications. She moved to Los Angeles in 1983 to open Acento, one of the country's top 20 full-service firms in fields such as creative, media planning, production, direct marketing, grassroots, marketing, and entertainment. She founded Leagas Delaney LTD, a London-based advertising company owned and operated by Tim Delaney and Margaret Johnson OBE after selling Acento in 2009 and complying with a three-year non-competency. The agency, which was established in 1980, is known in the United Kingdom for its emphasis on distinctive creative work for luxury brands like Patek Philippe [1], Glenfiddich [3], Harrods [3], and other brands including the British Red Cross [4], InterContinental Hotels [5], Timberland [7], and the Ecuador Ministry of Tourism [8]. The Leagas Delaney Company is privately owned, with London, Hamburg, Milan, Prague, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Escandón, the Los Angeles office's chief, is known for her research into customer behavior and cultural shifts that have changed the way businesses market with their customers. Rather than age, gender, language, location, ethnicity, or other demographic groups, she has coined the word "cyborhood" to describe digital communities based on lifestyle and preferences rather than age, gender, language, location, ethnicity, or any other demographic groups. "Consumers are masters of their code," the cyborhood says, "consumers are programmers" who choose what, when, and how to watch, listen, or play. Thus, the Internet has evolved into "The Great Organizer," assisting brands in reaching out to their customers and building friendships with them. Award-winning advertisements have been produced in the United States and Latin America as a result of Escandón's innovative strategy. AT&T [9], Nissan North America [10], Albertsons, MCI, Smart & Final, 22nd Century Insurance, Epson, Bimbo Bakeries USA, Jarritos, Cacique Cheese, Carl's Jr., and In-N-Out Burger are among others. Her lifelong dedication to strengthening brands' grassroots and public affairs has culminated in work for non-profit organizations, including Children's Tumor Foundation [11], Buenanueva Foundation, and Wings for the Soul.