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Sylvia Molloy
(1938 - living) Argentina - U.S.A.

Sylvia Molloy

Novelist

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Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities at New York University, and President of the Modern Language Association, Sylvia Molloy has been one of the most influential critical voices of Latin American literature and culture in Argentina, France and the United States. She has written extensively on Spanish American literature, especially on the literary trends of the 20th century, Jorge Luis Borges' work, gender issues, and women writers.

She has shown how Latin American women find in autobiography useful strategies to legitimate their own writings. In her essay "Female Textual Identities: The Strategies of Self-Figuration," she states: "the exalted self-figurations [women] adopt are not ways out of their texts but ways in, not icons to replace the writer but icons that govern her text."

Molloy is also a fiction writer. Her novel, En breve cárcel (1981) has been translated into English as Certificate of Absence (1989). She has been the recipient of numerous honors, among which the Presidency of the Modern Language Language Association, the Doctorate of Humane Letters, Tulane University, the Achievement Award for Outstanding Service to La Herencia Latina and the Latino Community, the N.E.H Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

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