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Wellesley College Professor of Spanish
Marjorie
Agosín.
Click here to view excerpts of her memoir
A
Cross and A Star,
published by The Feminist Press.
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Wellesley Professor
Receives Human Rights
Leadership Award
Wellesley, MA -- Wellesley College Professor of
Spanish
Marjorie
Agosín has been selected by the United Nations
Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) to receive a
Leadership Award for her contributions to international
understanding and human rights. A native of Chile, and an
internationally recognized poet, Agosín will be
honored at a ceremony in Boston on Wednesday, December 2,
1998.
Each year the UNA-GB honors citizens of Massachusetts who
have made significant contributions to greater international
understanding. Past honorees have included President George
Bush and former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody.
The other honorees being recognized by the UNA-GB are:
Fox Butterfield of The New York Times, Ira Jackson of
BankBoston, U.S. Representative Joseph Moakley, David Rohde
of The New York Times, Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty
International, U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic John
Shattuck, John Stewart of the John F. Kennedy Library, and
Dessima Williams of Brandeis University. The keynote speaker
at the event will be Dr. Felice D. Gaer, director of The
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human
Rights and a Wellesley College alumna.
A poet and human rights activist, Marjorie Agosín
has authored several collections of poetry, literary
criticism and a memoir about her mother growing up as a
Jewish girl in Chile. She won the 1995
Latino Literature Prize for poetry for her book,
Toward the Splendid City (Bilingual Press/Editorial
Bilingue, 1994). She also was awarded the Letras de Oro 1995
Prize for poetry, presented by Spainís Ministry of
Culture and the North-South Center of the University of
Miami, for her book, Noche Estrellada.
She received her B.A. from the University of Georgia and
her Ph.D. from the University of Indiana. Agosin is a
resident of Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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