Monica Lavin. Curious by birth, chilanga for more signs, contemporary of the first jet flights in 1955, she studied biology, but the questions she had found better field in narrative and journalism. She thought she was always going to be a storyteller because the Gilberto Owen National Literature Award, which she won in 1997 for Ruby Tuesday is not dead, which she seemed to highlight, but a handful of questions led her to the novel. In 2001 she received the Narrative Prize of Colima for another work published by Caf Cortado and in 2010 the Ibero-American Novel Elena Poniatowska Prize for Me, the Worst. She always goes back to story-telling, from her first book in 1986: Tales of Disagreement to Manual to fall in love (2014). Her desire to continue playing basketball led her to write The Fouler, much liked by young readers of fifteen years of age. She lives in Coyoacn, has two daughters, one is a designer and the other anthropologist. She likes coffee in a red mug in the morning, fresh
