Sylvia Molloy (writer)
Sylvia Molloy | |
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| Born | 19 August 1938 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 14 July 2022 (aged 83) Long Island, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, academic |
| Subject | LGBT fiction, autobiography |
Sylvia Molloy (19 August 1938 – 14 July 2022) was an Argentine professor, author, editor and essayist based in New York.
Biography
[edit]Molloy was born to an Irish father and a French mother on 19 August 1938 in Buenos Aires and raised in Argentina, where she grew up speaking English, French and Spanish.[1][2] She moved to Paris in 1958 and graduated with her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne in 1967.[1] 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. Molloy 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 held the Albert Schweitzer chair of Humanities.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Molloy died from cancer in Long Island on 14 July 2022, at the age of 83.[9]
Bibliography
[edit]Essays
[edit]- 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
[edit]- En breve cárcel (1981)
- El común olvido (2002)
- Varia imaginación (2003)
- Desarticulaciones (2010)
- Vivir entre lenguas (2016)
With others
[edit]- Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998, with Robert McKee Irwin)
- Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006, with Mariano Siskind)
Awards
[edit]- 1994 Konex Award for Literary Essay
- 2014 Konex Award for Literary Essay
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ghigliotto, Galo (31 July 2019). "Sylvia Molloy: La voz de la memoria resquebrajada – Palabra Pública". University of Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ "Murió la escritora, docente y ensayista Sylvia Molloy" (in Spanish). Télam. 14 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "Sylvia Molloy". Arts & Science. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Página/12 :: soy". Página12 (in Spanish). 25 September 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Sylvia Molloy: memorias de una lectora exquisita". Infobae (in Spanish). 10 November 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Sylvia Molloy, la lectora perfecta". Eterna Cadencia (in Spanish). 18 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Página/12 :: libros". Página12 (in Spanish). 3 August 2002. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "MFA Creative Writing Program in Spanish". Arts & Science. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Gigena, Daniel (14 July 2022). "Murió en Nueva York la escritora argentina Sylvia Molloy". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 July 2022.
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- 1938 births
- 2022 deaths
- Writers from Buenos Aires
- 20th-century Argentine women writers
- Argentine non-fiction writers
- Argentine people of Irish descent
- Argentine people of French descent
- Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
- Yale University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- New York University faculty
- 21st-century Argentine women writers
- Presidents of the Modern Language Association