Angelina Muñiz-Huberman


Angelina Muñiz-Huberman is a Mexican writer, academic, poet and professor. She is known for her work and research on Ladino, crypto-Judaism, Jewish mysticism and Sephardic Jews. Muñiz-Huberman is a recipient of the Xavier Villaurrutia Award and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. In 2022, she received an honorary doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico for a lifetime's work, an honor she shares with such figures as John Dewey, Octavio Paz and Juan Rulfo.

Biography

She was born in Hyères in France to parents who had fled the Spanish Civil War. Her father was a Spanish journalist who wrote for the Heraldo de Madrid newspaper. As the Nazis started advancing into France in 1939, the Muñiz family fled to Cuba, where they briefly lived in the countryside until the family moved to Mexico City in 1942. Her father ran an outpost of a laboratory testing company owned by a family member residing in New York. Her mother changed her surname to sound more Christian, despite the fact that Sacristán was not a typically Jewish name. She converted to Judaism after discovering her Sephardic ancestry. Muñiz-Huberman grew up among other middle-class Jewish immigrants in the Condesa neighborhood. She studied Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and has a PhD in literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is a professor of medieval and comparative literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
In November 2021, Muñiz-Huberman was inducted into Mexico's most prestigious literary body, the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language

Awards

She has been awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Award, for her short story collection Huerto cerrado, huerto sellado, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, for her novel Dulcinea encantada, and the National Prize for Arts and Literature, in the field of Linguistics and Literature. She also holds the José Fuentes Mares, Magda Donato, Woman of Valor Word, Manuel Levinsky, Protagonista de la Literatura Mexicana, the Orden Isabel la Católica, the Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras recognition and the Arqueles Vela Medal, awarded by the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. On January 14, 2021, she was awarded the 7th chair of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, a vacancy left by the death of the Mexican anthropologist, philosopher and historian Miguel León-Portilla. Muñiz-Huberman is also a corresponding member of the Academia Espírito-santense de Letras, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Books

  1. Morada interior
  2. Tierra adentro
  3. Vilano al viento
  4. La guerra del Unicornio
  5. Huerto Cerrado, Huerto Sellado
  6. De magias y prodigios: transmutaciones
  7. Notas de investigación sobre la literatura comparada
  8. La lengua florida: antología sefardí
  9. Primicias
  10. El libro de Míriam
  11. AM-H. De cuerpo entero ''
  12. Serpientes y escaleras
  13. La lengua florida
  14. El ojo de la creación
  15. Narrativa relativa
  16. Dulcinea encantada
  17. Las raíces y las ramas: fuentes y derivaciones de la Cábala hispanohebrea
  18. La memoria del aire
  19. Castillos en la tierra
  20. El trazo y el vuelo
  21. The Confidantes
  22. La sal en el rostro
  23. El mercader de Tudela
  24. El canto del peregrino
  25. Conato de extranjería
  26. El canto del peregrino. Hacia una poética del exilio
  27. Trotsky en Coyoacán
  28. Molinos sin viento
  29. Areúsa en los conciertos
  30. El siglo del desencanto
  31. La tregua de la inocencia
  32. Cantos treinta de otoño
  33. La pausa figurada
  34. La sombra que cobija
  35. En el jardín de la Cábala
  36. La burladora de Toledo
  37. Las raíces y las ramas
  38. Rompeolas. Poesía reunida
  39. Las vueltas a la noria
  40. El sefardí romántico
  41. Hacia Malinalco
  42. Arritmias
  43. Cosas veredes
  44. Los esperandos. Piratas judeo-portugueses... y yo
  45. El atanor encendido. Antología de cábala, alquimia, gnosticismo
  46. El último faro
  47. Cartas a una ardilla y otros especímenes''

Translations

Enclosed Garden,'' short fictionDulcinée, novelA Mystical Journey Dreaming of Safed, YA novelEnchanted Dulcinea, novelArrhythmias, essay/short fiction

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