Marjorie Agosín

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Marjorie Agosín (born 1955) is an award-winning poet, activist, and professor. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. She has won notability for her outspokenness for women rights in Chile.[1] The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights.[2] She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002.

[edit] Early life

Agosín was born in Bethesda, Maryland, United States to Moises and Frida Agosín in 1955.[3] She was raised in Chile but fled in exile to the United States in 1971, fearing the consquences of Augusto Pinochet's coup d'etat of Salvador Allende's socialist government.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Marjorie Agosín
  2. ^ Marjorie Agosin
  3. ^ http://www.justbuffalo.org/media/pdf/Agosin_Resource.pdf
  4. ^ VG: Artist Biography: Agosin, Marjorie


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