Marjorie Agosin
Chilean
BiographyMarjorie Agosin is a Jewish-Chilean poet and powerful voice expressing the trauma of the Pinochet era. She is a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She read poetry from her new collection, Mother Speak To Us About the War, and discussed her personal experiences at the Chilean event. Marjorie Agosín, Luella LaMer Professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College, is a highly respected and prolific writer and human rights activist. She grew up in Chile where her Jewish parents had settled after escaping from Vienna during the Second World War. She received her higher education and a Ph.D. in America, but has continued to write bilingually. Agosin's work, including several books of poetry as well as memoirs, fiction, anthologies, and translations, have often chronicled the difficult time of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, particularly its brutal effects on women, such as the arpilleristas and their families. She has received the Letras de Oro Prize for Poetry from the Spanish government and the Latino Literature Prize for Poetry.
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