Sylvia Molloy (writer)

Sylvia Molloy (born 19 August 1938) is an Argentine professor, author, editor and essayist based in New York. She was one of the pioneers in dealing with LGBT culture issues in her literary works and in studying autobiography as a genre.

Sylvia Molloy
Born19 August 1938
Buenos Aires
NationalityArgentina

Biography

Molloy was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1938. She graduated with her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne in 1967. Molloy then became a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She was chair of the Modern Language Association of America in 2001 and the International Institute of Latin American Studies. Mollow was awarded title of Doctor Honoris Causa from Tulane University. She has taught at both Yale and Princeton universities. In 1974 she became the first woman to gain tenure at Princeton University. In 2007, she created the first Master of Fine Arts degree in the United States in creative Spanish writing at New York University where she holds the Albert Schweitzer chair of Humanities.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Bibliography

Essay


  • La Diffusion de la littérature hispano-américaine en France au XXe siècle (1972)
  • Las letras de Borges (1979)
  • At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991)
  • Acto de presencia: la literatura autobiográfica en Hispanoamérica (1997)
  • Poses de fin de siglo. Desbordes del género en la modernidad (2013)
  • Citas de lectura (2017)

Fiction
  • En breve cárcel (1981)
  • El común olvido (2002)
  • Varia imaginación (2003)
  • Desarticulaciones. (2010)
  • Vivir entre lenguas (2016)

With others
  • Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998) (with Robert McKee Irwin )
  • Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006). (with Mariano Siskind )

Awards
  • 2014 Konex Award: Literary Essay
  • 1994 Konex Award: Literary Essay

References
  1. "Sylvia Molloy". Arts & Science. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  2. "Página/12 :: soy". Página12 (in Spanish). 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  3. "Sylvia Molloy: memorias de una lectora exquisita". Infobae (in Spanish). 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  4. "Sylvia Molloy, la lectora perfecta". Eterna Cadencia (in Spanish). 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  5. "Página/12 :: libros". Página12 (in Spanish). 2002-08-03. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  6. "MFA Creative Writing Program in Spanish". Arts & Science. 2019-11-25. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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