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Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre
The winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2012, Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre, re-issued by Vintage Canada. Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.
CARMEN AGUIRRE is a writer and theater artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written or co-written 18 plays, including The Refugee Hotel, which was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play in 2010. Aguirre has over 60 film, TV, and stage acting credits, including a lead role in the independent feature Quinceanera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Something Fierce is her first book. The first chapter of the book was published in the prestigious literary non-fiction journal Brick in the winter of 2007. Her writing has also appeared in Crank magazine, TIME magazine, The Vancouver Sun, and Aquelarre Magazine.
Aguirre founded The Latino Theatre Group, and directed it for ten years, was playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse from 2000 to 2002, where she produced the Voices of the Americas reading series, and was playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre in 2004. She facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops around the province of British Columbia, working with: YouthCo, Fort Nelson First Nations, OXFAM, The Vancouver School Board, Seton Lake Indian Band, The Women's Correctional Centre, The Purple Thistle Centre, Arts Umbrella, and the Kitsilano Community Centre, among many others.
She worked as a facilitator for Headlines Theatre Company from 1994 to 1998, facilitating and directing dozens of Forum Theatre plays, and has worked extensively with Puente Theatre, the Victoria based immigrant theater company that specializes in popular theater. Carmen has studied with Augusto Boal, the creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, in Brazil and the United States. Her direction of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters at Studio 58 garnered rave reviews and landed on The Vancouver Courier's top ten plays of 2007 list.
She has served on the editorial board for Crank magazine, on The Playwrights Guild of Canada's Women's Caucus, on the Advisory Committee for The British Columbia Arts Council, on the jury for The Canada Council for the Arts, and on The Jessie Richardson nominating committee.
Aguirre founded The Latino Theatre Group, and directed it for ten years, was playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse from 2000 to 2002, where she produced the Voices of the Americas reading series, and was playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre in 2004. She facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops around the province of British Columbia, working with: YouthCo, Fort Nelson First Nations, OXFAM, The Vancouver School Board, Seton Lake Indian Band, The Women's Correctional Centre, The Purple Thistle Centre, Arts Umbrella, and the Kitsilano Community Centre, among many others.
She worked as a facilitator for Headlines Theatre Company from 1994 to 1998, facilitating and directing dozens of Forum Theatre plays, and has worked extensively with Puente Theatre, the Victoria based immigrant theater company that specializes in popular theater. Carmen has studied with Augusto Boal, the creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, in Brazil and the United States. Her direction of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters at Studio 58 garnered rave reviews and landed on The Vancouver Courier's top ten plays of 2007 list.
She has served on the editorial board for Crank magazine, on The Playwrights Guild of Canada's Women's Caucus, on the Advisory Committee for The British Columbia Arts Council, on the jury for The Canada Council for the Arts, and on The Jessie Richardson nominating committee.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780345813824 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345813820 |
| Title | Something Fierce |
| Author | Carmen Aguirre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Canada |
| Year published | 2014-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 2012, Long-listed for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2012, Long-listed for Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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