Dislocations

About Sylvia Molloy

Sylvia Molloy (Buenos Aires 1938-2022) was a novelist essayist and a leading literary critic of Latin American literature. She was 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 was the author of two novels: En común olvido (Shared Oblivion 2002) and En breve cárcel (Soon Jail 1981) and had written several books of short prose including: Varia imaginación (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 was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation the National Endowment for the Humanities the Social Science Research Council and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Dislocations 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 Tokarczuks Flights. She has also translated Federico Falcos A Perfect Cemetery  Romina Paulas August Pedro Mairals The Woman from Uruguay and Olga Tokarczuks The Books of Jacob. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.