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Lake Sagaris

Summary

Lake Sagaris (born 1956 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist, poet, writer, urban planner, translator, and community leader who lives in Chile.

Lake Sagaris pictured at European Cyclist Federation event

When she was elected a leader into the Bellavista neighborhood association in the 1990s she became active in neighborhood issues. Sagaris achieved a Master of Science in 2006 and got her PhD in Urban Planning and Community Development in 2012 both at the University of Toronto.[1]

Her book After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile, Time, Mind was a non-fiction finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit.[2] She won first prize in the Periodical Writers Association of Canada Magazine and Newspaper Travel Writing Contest 1997 for her article "Norte Grande."[3]

Books edit

  • Sagaris, Lake. Bone and dream : into the world's driest desert. 1st ed. -- Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2000. ISBN 0-676-97223-3 (about the Atacama desert in Chile)
  • Sagaris, Lake. After the first death : a journey through Chile, time, mind. Toronto : Somerville House Publishing, c1996. xxviii, 401 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. ISBN 1-895897-63-7
  • Sagaris, Lake. Medusa's children : a journey from Newfoundland to Chiloé. Regina : Coteau Books, c1993. 142 p. : map ; 23 cm. ISBN 1-55050-046-5
  • Sagaris, Lake. Exile home = Exilio en la patria. [Dunvegan, Ont.] : Cormorant Books, Casa Canadá, c1986. 104 p. ; 23 cm. Poems in English and Spanish. ISBN 0-920953-04-2

External links edit

  • Lake Sagaris Official site.
  • Sagaris, Lake. "Fear eats the soul." new internationalist, issue 161 - July 1986
  • Sagaris, Lake - "Not Now, NAFTA - Chile and the North American Free Trade Agreement" - Sierra, January 1999
  • Living on Earth, December 4, 1998. Chip Plant Threatens Chilean Rainforest, by Lake Sagaris

References edit

  1. ^ "European Cyclists' Federation". 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ Canada Council for the Arts - Cumulative list of finalists Archived 2010-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Sources 41 - The Winners
  • Kolbeins, Melanie. Review of Bone and Dream by Lake Sagaris. Canadian Literature, issue 181 (Summer 2004): 103–104.
  • The Writers' Union of Canada - Lake Sagaris