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Place of Birth: Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile
About Carmen Rodríguez
- Carmen Rodríguez (born June 19, 1948) is a Chilean-Canadian author, poet, educator, political social activist, and a founding member of Aquelarre Magazine.
- Along with her husband and daughters, she fled to Canada after the Chilean Coup of 1973 and where she now resides as a political refugee.
- Rodríguez is known for her unique approach to writing, publishing most of her work in both Spanish and English.
- The translations of Rodríguez's work are done by her alone, a trend not commonly followed among other multilingual authors.
- Rodríguez translates her work until "[she feels] that both tips of [her] tongue and [her] two sets of ears were satisfied with the final product.'" Rodríguez's major works are and a body to remember with, a collection of short stories, and Guerra Prolongada/Protracted War, a collection of poems in both English and Spanish Rodríguez's first publication was a short story submitted for an annual literary competition in Chile in 1972, for which she received an honorable mention.
- In Canada, Rodríguez has had her works published in Paula magazine, Aquelarre magazine, Capilano Review, Fireweed, Norte-Sur and Prison Journal.
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