Leading Latin American author Laura Esquivel will give the second Annual Creative Writing Lecture at the University of Leicester on October 24. Laura Esquivel is best known for her prize-winning 1990 book Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water For Chocolate). The book was praised for its marriage of narrative with cooking recipes, and was made into a film that won, among many international prizes, all 11 of 1992’s Ariel Awards (the Mexican Oscars) - Esquivel receiving hers for best adapted sc...