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Alumna returns to discss the ethics of the political memoir

By Beth Roberts
beth@uga.edu

Marjorie Agosín, chair of the Spanish department at Wellesley College, will be on campus the week of Sept. 10. Agosín received

Marjorie Agosín

her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Spanish literature at the University of Georgia before obtaining her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish-American literature from Indiana University.
Agosín has had an extraordinarily distinguished career in several separate fields of writing. She has published more than 20 books of poetry, eight books of memoirs, and six books of fiction—in Spanish and in English, and has edited several anthologies of works by Latin American Jewish women writers. Her creative and scholarly work is featured in numerous anthologies.
She will deliver a lecture about the ethics of the political memoir for the Center for Humanities and Arts on Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. in 265 Park Hall. On Sept. 10, 12 and 14, at 4 in the afternoon each day, she will lead a creative writing workshop on the political memoir; participants are asked to sign up in advance by e-mailing robertaf@uga.edu. On Sept. 11, Agosín will give a poetry reading in English (at noon in 261 Park Hall) and on Sept. 13 she will read in Spanish (at 4 p.m., Mary Linden Hall). Finally, she will show and discuss her Peabody-winning film, Threads of Hope, at the regular women’s studies Friday lunchtime colloquium at 12:20 on Sept. 14 in room 137 of the Tate Student Center. The film deals with the way in which the women of Chile used fabric and thread scraps to make the world aware of the disappearance of their loved ones during the Pinochet era.
Agosín is the recipient of the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for lifetime achievement and the United Nations Leadership Award in Human Rights. She was the featured poet at the Katherine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and has received the First Prize for Poetry from Letras de Oro, the Latino Literature Prize, the Mexican Cultural Institute prize for the Anthology of Mexican Women Writers, the American Association of Literary Translations Award for Circles of Madness and a Peabody Award.

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