Sara Sefchovich

Francesca Dennstedt (Washington University St. Louis)

Ed. by Nuala Finnegan, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 2 Apr 1949
Activity 1990-ongoing

Places

Born in Mexico
Active in Mexico

Activities

Primary

Prose writer
Sociologist

Other

Historian / Chronicler

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Born in Mexico City on April 2, 1949, Sara Sefchovich is a Mexican sociologist, historian, writer and professor, currently at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Sefchovich stopped writing fiction over fifteen years ago because, as she has explained several times, the genre cannot account for the violent reality of Mexico. This decision very well exemplifies who Sefchovich is and why her work matters. A woman with strong convictions, committed to the reality of her time, both through research and activism, Sefchovich has dedicated her work to understanding Mexican culture and how Mexico works as a society, with a particular interest in women. With her more than twenty years of writing

for the newspaper

El universal

, combined with her historical and sociological research…

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Citation: Dennstedt, Francesca. "Sara Sefchovich". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 April 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13966, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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