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Margo Glantz (born Margarita Glantz Shapiro)

マルゴ・グランツ（ほんみょう: マルガリータ・グランツ・シャピーロ）

Margo Glantz

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1930-01-28 （Mexico City, Mexico）
Nationality
Mexico
Languages
Spanish, English
Religion
Judaism (Jewish background)
Residence History
Mexico City (primary residence) → Paris, France (studies/doctoral work) → London, England (cultural attaché period) → Montclair, New Jersey, USA (teaching period)

Career

Occupations
writer, essayist, literary critic, academic, university professor
Active Years
1956-
Affiliations
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA)
Memberships
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, National System of Researchers (Mexico)
Nominations
Finalist, XX Premio Herralde de Novela (2002) for El rastro

Education

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters / Theater History (studied English and Spanish literature, art history)
Degree: 学士相当（学部修了）
Period: 1947–1953
Year of Graduation: 1953
Country: Mexico
Studied literature and theater history at UNAM from 1947 to 1953.
University of Paris (Sorbonne)
Humanities / Hispanic Literature (doctoral studies)
Degree: 博士（Hispanic Literature）
Period: 1953–（取得年不明）
Country: France
Earned a doctorate in Hispanic Literature at the Sorbonne (exact year not specified in sources).

Awards

Magda Donato Prize
1982
Result: 受賞
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1984
Work: Síndrome de naufragios
Organization: Joaquín Mortiz / literary community
Result: 受賞
National University Prize
1991
Organization: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Result: 受賞
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
2003
Work: El rastro (The Wake / The Remains)
Organization: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize organizers
Result: 受賞
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
2004
Category: Lingüística y Literatura（言語学・文学）
Organization: Mexican government
Result: 受賞
FIL Award / Juan Rulfo Prize
2010
Organization: Guadalajara International Book Fair
Result: 受賞
Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award
2015
Organization: Organizers of the Manuel Rojas Prize
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1998
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受給
Rockefeller Scholarship
1996
Organization: Rockefeller Foundation
Result: 受給

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Las mil y una calorías

1978 novel / fiction

An early experimental fiction work engaging themes of food, the body and self-representation.

bodyfoodself-representation

Las genealogías (The Family Tree: An Illustrated Novel)

1981 autobiographical fiction / novel

A strongly autobiographical work that explores family genealogy and memory, addressing her Jewish immigrant roots and relationship with her father.

family historymemoryimmigrationidentity
Translations
  • The Family Tree: An Illustrated Novel (English translation, translated by Susan Bassnett)

Síndrome de naufragios

1984 essay/fiction hybrid

A work mixing autobiographical elements with experimental narration. Winner of the 1984 Xavier Villaurrutia Award.

selfmemorynarrative experimentation

El rastro (The Wake / The Remains)

2002 novel

A novel that deals with the body, memory and sexual themes. Winner of the 2004 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize; translated into English.

bodymemorygenderloss
Translations
  • The Wake (English translation by Andrew Hurley)
  • The Remains (English translation by Ellen Jones)

Bibliography

  • Las mil y una calorías (1978)
  • Doscientas ballenas azules (1979)
  • No pronunciarás (1980)
  • Las genealogías (1981)
  • Síndrome de naufragios (1984)
  • Apariciones (1996)
  • Zona de derrumbe (2001)
  • El rastro (2002)
  • Animal de dos semblantes (2004)
  • Historia de una mujer que caminó por la vida con zapatos de diseñador (2005)

Translations of Works

  • Las genealogías → The Family Tree (English translation)
  • El rastro → The Wake / The Remains (English translations)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimental and fragmentary narrationblend of essay and fictioncritical and scholarly perspective
Recurring Motifs
body and foodgenealogy and family memoryfemale experiencelanguage and translation

Legacy

Regarded as one of Mexico's foremost writers and scholars, Glantz has had a long-lasting impact in literature, criticism and academia, receiving numerous national and international awards and maintaining close ties with UNAM and Mexican literary institutions.

Academic Societies

  • Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
  • National System of Researchers (Mexico)

Archives

  • UNAM archives (related materials and lecture notes)

Trivia

  • Her family immigrated to Mexico from present-day Ukraine in the 1920s.
  • Her father Jacobo Glantz was reported to have been acquainted with Diego Rivera.
  • She published work that named and chronicled the 1960s Mexican literary movement known as the 'Onda'.
  • Member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995.