Marjorie Agosín, eine große Unterstützerin der Sommerschule, ist am Montag, 10. März viel zu früh verstorben. Wir wollen nun Marjorie hier in Graz, wo sie viele Spuren hinterlassen hat und wo – nach der nationalsozialistischen Vertreibung ihrer Familie aus Österreich – sie wieder mit ihrer Heimat versöhnt wurde, gemeinsam gedenken. Wir veranstalten In Memoriam Marjorie Agosín eine Gedenkveranstaltung am Montag, 19. Mai 2025 um 17.00 Uhr im Meerscheinschloss, im Gedenken an eine starke Frau, die sich gegen Unrecht und für Humanität ihr Leben lang eingesetzt hat, und immer ihre Stimme für Entrechtete, die von Trauma, Migration, Diaspora und Genozid betroffen waren, erhoben hat.
Roberta Maierhofer (Chapterleiterin GUSEGG)
Marjorie Agosín, a Jewish Chilean American poet, human rights activist and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, who died too early on March 10, 2025. Born in the USA of Chilean parents, she returned to Chile from the port of NYC to Valparaiso at the age of three months. Her books speak of voyages. diasporas, and about being from somewhere else. At the age of fifteen, her family had to flee again because of the Pinochet regime, and they returned to the United States where she taught Latin American Literature at Wellesley college. She chose to write in Spanish and her work has been translated into English and other languages. Marjorie Agosín has written extensively in many genres, including poetry, plays, young adult novels, memoirs, and essays. Agosín obtained several awards for her contribution to Literature / Among them the Gabriela Mistral medal of honor for Lifetime Achievement. the United Nations Leadership award. the Fritz Reidlich award for her work on Human Rights, and the Pura Belpre award for her YA novel I Lived on Butterfly Hill. The heart of Agosín's writings resided in her pursuit of justice and memory and the vindication of the victims of genocide. She wrote often about the Holocaust and the military government in Latin America.