Myriam Moscona
Myriam Moscona, born in Mexico City of Bulgarian Sephardic descent, is a poet, novelist, translator and journalist. Moscona is the author of several books. The most recent one is La muerte de la lengua inglesa (Almadía, 2020) . Her book-length sequence Ivory Black (Negro marfil), translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer and published by Les Figues Press in 2011, received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets and the PEN Translation Prize, both in 2012. She also published Ansina, written in Judeo-spanish. Moscona has received numerous awards, including the Premio de Poesía Aguascalientes. She is a grantee of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, and was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. Selections of her work have also been translated into German, Arabic, Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Swedish and except of the Rumanian, to all the Latin languages. Her novel Tela de sevoya (Random House Mondadori, 2012) received the Xavier Villaurutia Prize in 2012 and was published in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, USA and Italy. She loves to swim and lives in Mexico City with her old dog Isaac.