Book talk: Marjorie Agosin presents "Tales of Valparaiso: A Poet Remembers"

Marjorie Agosín is the Luela Lamer Slaner Professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College. She is also a poet, essayist, and made her debut as a novelist with I Lived on Butterfly Hill (Atheneum Books, 2014). She is considered to be among the most versatile Latina writers writing today.

 

Agosín is also an internationally recognized Human Rights activist and the recipient of many international awards. Among them, the United Nations Leadership Award and the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement. She resides with her family in Wellesley, Massachusetts; Ogunquit, Maine; and Costa Brava, Chile.

 

Agosín's books I Lived on Butterfly Hill, Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juarez (White Pine Press, 2006), and Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir (University of Arizona Press, 2008) will be available for purchase at the event. A reception will follow the reading.

Organized by LGBT Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Latin American Institute, the Department of Gender Studies, the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies, and the CSRC.

This event is FREE.