当代著名小说家、散文家辛西娅·欧芝克(Cynthia 0zick)是二十世纪七十年代以来美国文坛一颗耀眼的明星,也是继索尔·贝娄之后最重要的犹太作家之一。她1928年出生于美国纽约一个俄国犹太移民家庭,迄今已著有五部长篇小说、四部短篇小说集和五部散文集,被美国文坛称为“犹太人的后现代代言人”。 Cynthia Ozick, a famous contemporary novelist and essayist, was a dazzling star in the American literature since the 1970s and one of the most important Jewish writers after Saul Bellow. She was born in 1928 in a New York Jewish immigrant family in the United States. She has published five novels, four short stories and five essays so far and is called “the Jewish postmodern spokesman” by the American literary world.