Marjorie Agosín

Marjorie Agosín
Born	June 15, 1955
Alma mater	Indiana University
Occupation	novelist

Marjorie Agosín (born June 15, 1955) is a Chilean-born American writer. Agosín was born in 1955 to Moises and Frida Agosín in Chile, where she lived her childhood in a German community.^[1] She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty.^[2] She contributed the piece "Women of smoke" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.^[3] 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), 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.^[4] She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College.^[5] She has won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile.^[6] The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights.^[7] She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002.

Selected published works

• Brujas Y Algo Más: Witches and Other Things, (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1984), ISBN 978-0-935480-16-0
• Violeta Parra: santa de pura greda : un estudio de su obra poética, (with Inés Dölz-Blackburn), (Planeta, 1988), ISBN 9562470164
• Sargazo (White Pine Press, 1993) ISBN 978-1-877727-27-6
• Tapestries of hope, threads of love, (University of New Mexico Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8263-1692-1
• Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, (Editor), (Feminist Press, 2000), ISBN 1-55861-256-4
• Women, gender, and human rights: a global perspective, (Rutgers University Press, 2001), ISBN 0-8135-2983-2
• Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez (White Pine Press, 2006), ISBN 1-893996-47-6
• The Light of Desire / La Luz del Deseo, translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2010), ISBN 978-0-9748881-7-0
• I Lived on Butterfly Hill, (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2014) ISBN 978-1-4169-5344-9

References

1. Wellesley College > News Release > Wellesley Professor Receives Human Rights Leadership Award > November 30, 1998
2. Library of Congress Online Catalog > Marjorie Agosín
3. "Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global :". Catalog.vsc.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
4. Reinares, Laura Barberán (2010). "Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, and the Fermicides on the US- Mexican Border in Roberto Bolaño's 2666". South Atlantic Review 75 (4): 51–72, on 69.
5. Wellesley College > Department of Spanish Faculty
6. Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosín
7. Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosin

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