Sylvia Molloy

Sylvia Molloy is a novelist, essayist and leading literary critic of Latin American literature. Her critical works include At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991) and Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998). She authored two novels, En breve cárcel and El común olvido, and several books of short prose pieces: Varia imaginación, Desarticulaciones, Citas de lectura, Vivir entre lenguas and Animalias. In 2014 she received the Konex Award for Literature. Molloy was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She served as president of the Modern Language Association and of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.