Alicia Partnoy
Award-winning poet, human rights activist to present reading
One of the leading voices for human rights in Latin America will speak Oct. 6 at Monmouth College.
Award-winning writer and scholar Alicia Partnoy will present a free public reading at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the College’s Stockdale Center.
A critically acclaimed poet and current professor at Loyola Marymount (Calif.) University, Partnoy will present “Justice, Poetry and the Disappeared of Latin America: A Reading and Discussion.”
The event offers an opportunity to interact with Partnoy, who has been essential in bringing forward the stories of survivors of state-sponsored and tolerated violence.
Her talk is sponsored by the Monmouth Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, along with the Department of English, the Public Affairs Committee and the Office of Intercultural Life.
Partnoy is a survivor of Argentina’s secret detention camps, where about 30,000 people “disappeared” in the 1970s. She came to the United States as a refugee, almost three years after being held as a political prisoner by her own government.
Her well-known 1985 book, The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival, chronicles the time she spent in Argentina’s military-operated concentration camps.
Partnoy’s third poetry collection, Flowering Fires/Fuegos florales, received the First Settlement House American Poetry Prize.
Partnoy presides over Proyecto VOS-Voices of Survivors, an organization that brings survivors of state-sponsored or state-tolerated violence to lecture at U.S. universities. She is also a former vice chair of Amnesty International’s board of directors.
Award-winning writer and scholar Alicia Partnoy will present a free public reading at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the College’s Stockdale Center.
A critically acclaimed poet and current professor at Loyola Marymount (Calif.) University, Partnoy will present “Justice, Poetry and the Disappeared of Latin America: A Reading and Discussion.”
The event offers an opportunity to interact with Partnoy, who has been essential in bringing forward the stories of survivors of state-sponsored and tolerated violence.
Her talk is sponsored by the Monmouth Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, along with the Department of English, the Public Affairs Committee and the Office of Intercultural Life.
Partnoy is a survivor of Argentina’s secret detention camps, where about 30,000 people “disappeared” in the 1970s. She came to the United States as a refugee, almost three years after being held as a political prisoner by her own government.
Her well-known 1985 book, The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival, chronicles the time she spent in Argentina’s military-operated concentration camps.
Partnoy’s third poetry collection, Flowering Fires/Fuegos florales, received the First Settlement House American Poetry Prize.
Partnoy presides over Proyecto VOS-Voices of Survivors, an organization that brings survivors of state-sponsored or state-tolerated violence to lecture at U.S. universities. She is also a former vice chair of Amnesty International’s board of directors.