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American writer and academic

Ilan Stavans (born Ilán Stavchansky, 1961) is a Mexican-born Jewish-American writer and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures.

He is the author of Quixote (2015) and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010). He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans, which ran from 2001 to 2006.

Stavans on Censorship, Translation Journal, Interview by Verónica Albin

Early life and education

Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico in 1961 to a middle-classJewish family; his father's ancestors had immigrated from the Russian Pale of Settlement. His parents were born in Mexico City.

His father, Abraham Stavans, was a Mexican telenovela actor.^[1] His mother, Ofelia Stavans, taught theater.^[1]

After living in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, Stavans immigrated to the United States in 1985, and became a naturalized U.S.

citizen in 1994.^[2] He earned a master's degree from the Jewish T