Bibiana Camacho

Bibiana Camacho is a contemporary Mexican author, writer and publisher, best known for her novels: Tu ropa en mi armario (Your clothes in my closet), Tras las huellas de mi olvido (After the traces of my oblivion), La sonámbula (The sleepwalker).

Personal life

Jenni Jiménez, known professionally as Bibiana Camacho, was born in Mexico City in 1974. She considers her grandmother as a fitting literary character. For this reason, she uses her name as a pseudonym. Besides being a writer, Bibiana Camacho is an editor, artisanal notebook maker and former contemporary dancer.

Career

She first studied contemporary dancing but after quitting her dancing studies, got involved in the literary world by studying linguistics. She wrote her first work Tras las huellas de mi olvido in between 2005 and 2006. This book was published in 2007, one year after she wrote it. Other important works include: Tras las Huellas de Mi Olvido, La Sonámbula and Tu Ropa en mi Armario.

Since then she has collaborated with diverse magazines and publications such as Generación, La Tempestad, Replicante and Puro Cuento, and the list goes on. She worked as an intern in the “Fondo Nacional para la cultura y las artes” and she also worked as an editor and translator in “Trusquets editorial”.

Bibiana Camacho's novel, Tras las huellas de mi olvido was rewarded with an honorific mention in the Juan Rulfo Prize in 2007.

Literary analysis

Bibiana Camacho traces a thin line between the reality and fiction in stories in which their characters wander in a supposedly endless monotony. Her stories present symbols through which the physical represents the emotional with a perversive touch and a moral covering. Moreover, she shows a reality with fantastic touches where the human relations are sullied and easily modified. Such an oppression emerged from a moral and powered world

Bibiana presents a reality through a type of fantasy where the human relations are easily modified. She also writes about an oppressed world based in morality and power that would easily trigger into madness with a minute show of change in the human survival.

La Sonámbula, the second book of stories of Bibiana Camacho, runs scenarios where every kind of losses and disencounters happen. Their stories delve into the land of the underworld and the fantastic turns shine the everyday at the time that warn the man about the apocalypse well deserved but mysterious.

Her stories are included in the anthology Ciudad fantasma & Avisos clasificados, both from 2013.

Works