Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (; born December 29, 1936) 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. 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" newspaper. She converted to Judaism after discovering her Sephardic ancestry. 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 lab 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. Muñiz-Huberman grew up among other middle-class Jewish immigrants in the Condesa neighborhood. She studied Romance Languages at University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and has a PhD in Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de  México (UNAM). She is a professor of Medieval Literature and Comparative Literature at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In November 2021, Muñiz-Huberman was inducted into Mexico’s most prestigious literary body, the Mexican Academy of Language following the death of the death of philosopher and historian Miguel León-Portilla. Her candidacy was proposed by academicians Ascensión Hernández Triviño, Javier Garciadiego, Roger Bartra and Silvia Molina. She has been married to Alberto Huberman since 1959. Huberman was born in Cuba and migrated to Mexico after the Cuban revolution to complete his medical studies. He was a member of the socialist  Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair, and co-founded Kibbutz Gaash during his stay in Israel. Awards. She has been awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1985), for her short story "Huerto cerrado, huerto sellado;" the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (1993), for her novel D"ulcinea encantada", and the National Prize for Arts and Literature (2018), 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 (Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics).