Maruxa Vilalta

Maruxa Vilalta is a Mexican playwright and a theatre director.

Her plays have been translated, published and produced in numerous countries. She has won the critic’s prize for the best play of the year ten times.

In November 2010 she was awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the field of Linguistics and Literature, for her work which has national and international resonance. President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa gave her the award at the National Palace (Mexico).

Themes such a lack of communication and escapism are linked to a political critique, protest against social injustice, and defense of the human being in the works of this author. The theater of Maruxa Vilalta gives a broader meaning to the problems of countries and their inhabitants today.