Sylvia Molloy

Sylvia Molloy (Buenos Aires, 1938) is a novelist, essayist, and a leading literary critic of Latin American literature. She is Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities Emerita at New York University, where she taught Latin American and comparative literatures. In 2007, at New York University, she created the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, which was the first programme of its kind in the United States. She is the author of two novels: En comun olvido (Shared Oblivion, 2002) and En breve carcel (Soon jail, 1981), and has written several books of short prose pieces including: Varia imaginacion (Varied Imagination, 2003), _Citas de lectura _(Reading dates, 2017), Vivir entre lenguas (Living between languages, 2016) and Dislocations originally entitled _Desarticulaciones _(2010). Her critical work includes At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), and Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998). She has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She lives in New York and this is her first book of fiction to appear in English.Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for _Homesick _and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s _Flights. _She has also translated Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s _The Books of Jacob. _She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.