Caridad Bravo Adams

Caridad Bravo Adams (born on January 14, 1908, in Villahermosa, Tabasco – August 13, 1990 in Mexico City) was a prolific Mexican writer and the most famous telenovela writer worldwide.
She was born to a couple of Cuban actors and she was part of an extended family of artists, being the sister of Venezuelan actor Leon Bravo, one of the pioneers of theater, radio and TV in Venezuela. She published her first book at the age of 16, titled Pétalos sueltos. She then moved back to Cuba with her parents, and later returned to Mexico, where she kept writing and obtained a role in her only film, Corazón bandolero (1934). She became a chair member of the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres and later moved back to Cuba, where she wrote the radionovela Yo no creo en los hombres, which was adapted in Mexico for telenovelas in 1969 and 1988. Upon the rise of Fidel Castro, she returned to Mexico, where she would remain the rest of her life. Back in Mexico, she wrote Corazón salvaje, a novel that has been adapted to the screen twice and as a telenovela four times (including once as Juan del Diablo in Puerto Rico). She then wrote La intrusa, Bodas de odio and other novels that earned her important awards.
The nature of her work
Caridad Bravo Adams can easily be identified as the Margaret Mitchell of telenovelas. Though she has her own style of writing Caridad's most successful stories are the ones in which she deals with the Margaret Mitchell-like topic of loveless marriage and the process of conquering one's wife. In Corazón salvaje, La mentira, Bodas de odio (and later Amor real), El otro (and later Por tu amor) she deals with the subject of a seemingly loveless marriage that turns out not to be so. Just like Mitchell, Caridad explores the human psychology from the perspective of a protagonist who ignores her true emotions and goes through a process of realizing the feelings that were there all along. Hence a love and hate relationship begins until finally the emotional worlds of the couple come to light. Her male figure is always a dashing Rhett Buttler, noble, strong but hiding his feelings behind irony. Her female figure on the other hand varies keeping as only thing in common with Mitchell's Scarlet O'Hara, her strength of character and stubbornness.
Films as an actress
Corazón bandolero (1934)
As a writer
Poetry
Pétalos sueltos (1924)
Reverbación (1931)
Trópico(1933)
Marejada (1940)
Novels
La mentira o El amor nunca muere (1952)
Corazón salvaje (1956)
Tzintzuntzn (La Noche de los Muertos)-1967
Bodas de odio
La imperdonable
La intrusa
Yo no creo en los hombres
Cuatrilogía primordial
Plays
Agustín Ramírez (1962)
Films
La mentira (1952)
Pecado mortal (1955)
Corazón salvaje (1956)
Orgullo de mujer (1956, novel El otro)
Cuentan de una mujer (1959)
Corazón salvaje (1968)
Deborah (1968)
La mentira (1970)
Estafa de amor (1970)
Telenovelas
La mentira
Yo no creo en los hombres
La intrusa/ Gabriela
Pecado mortal
El engaño/ Estafa de amor
Corazón salvaje
Orgullo de mujer
El enemigo
Adiós, amor mío
Más allá del corazón
Cita con la muerte
Cristina Guzmán
Sueña conmigo Donaji
Más fuerte que el odio/ Amor en el desierto
Lo prohibido
Deborah
La desconocida
Águeda
Cristina
El precio de un hombre
La hiena
Mamá
Alma y carne
Bodas de odio
Herencia maldita
Una sombra entre los dos / Al pie del altar
Tormenta de pasiones
Un Paraíso Maldito / Azul infierno
Nunca te Olvidare 1999
Awards
Nezahualcóyolt medal of the Mexican Writers Guild
References
External links
Biography
1908 births
1990 deaths
Mexican people of Cuban descent
Telenovela writers
People from Villahermosa
Mexican LGBT screenwriters
Mexican LGBT journalists
Mexican women journalists
Amor real
20th-century women writers
Women soap opera writers
20th-century Mexican screenwriters
20th-century Mexican LGBT people