Marjorie Agosín

Marjorie Agosín (born June 15, 1955) is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty.^[1] Her two most recent books are both poetry collections, The Light of Desire / La Luz del Deseo, translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2009),^[2] and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman (White Pine Press, 2006), about the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez.^[3] She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College.^[4] She has won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile.^[5] The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights.^[6] She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002. Agosín was born in 1955 to Moises and Frida Agosín in Chile, where she lived her childhood in a German community.^[7]

Selected Published Works

• Brujas Y Algo Más: Witches and Other Things, (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1984), ISBN 9780935480160
• Sargazo (White Pine Press, 1993) ISBN 9781877727276
• Tapestries of hope, threads of love, (University of New Mexico Press, 1996) ISBN-10: 0826316921
• Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, (Editor), (Feminist Press, 2000), ISBN 1558612564
• Women, gender, and human rights: a global perspective, (Rutgers University Press, 2001), ISBN 0813529832
• Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez (White Pine Press, 2006), ISBN-10: 1893996476
• The Light of Desire / La Luz del Deseo, translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2010), ISBN-10: 9780974888170

References

1. ^ Library of Congress Online Catalog > Marjorie Agosín
2. ^ Swan Isle Press
3. ^ White Pine Press > Catalog
4. ^ Wellesley College > Department of Spanish Faculty
5. ^ Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosín
6. ^ Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosin
7. ^ Wellesley College > News Release > Wellesley Professor Receives Human Rights Leadership Award > November 30, 1998

External links

• Poems: The International Literary Quarterly > Issue 3, May 2008 > Poems by Marjorie Agosín translated by Roberta Gordenstein
• Poem: poets.org > Secrets in the Sand (and the night was a precipice) by Marjorie Agosín
• Review: Barnes and Noble Online > Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez by Marjorie Agosín > Review by Library Journal

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