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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.〔(Wellesley College > News Release > ''Wellesley Professor Receives Human Rights Leadership Award'' > November 30, 1998 )〕 She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty.〔(Library of Congress Online Catalog > Marjorie Agosín )〕 She contributed the piece "Women of smoke" to the 1984 anthology ''Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology'', edited by Robin Morgan. 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. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College.〔(Wellesley College > Department of Spanish Faculty )〕 She has won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile.〔(Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosín )〕 The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights.〔(Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosin )〕 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marjorie Agosín」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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