About Sylvia Molloy
Lived 1938 – 2022 (aged 83). Sylvia Molloy was an Argentine writer, editor and university teacher.
Sylvia Molloy (29 August 1938 – 14 July 2022) was an Argentine professor, author, editor and essayist based in New York.
Biography Molloy was born to an Irish father and a French mother on 29 August 1938 in Buenos Aires and raised in Argentina, where she grew up speaking English, French and Spanish. She moved to Paris in 1958 and graduated with her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne in 1967.
Molloy died from cancer in Long Island on 14 July 2022, at the age of 83.
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Who was Sylvia Molloy?
professor, author, editor
When was Sylvia Molloy born?
Sylvia Molloy was born on 29 August 1938 in Buenos Aires.
When did Sylvia Molloy die?
Sylvia Molloy died on 14 July 2022 in Long Island.
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Sylvia Molloy was a writer, editor and university teacher.
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Sylvia Molloy was Argentine.
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