283:. In Argentina, in 2011 the Spanish language edition received the Special Jury Prize/Elegidos Alija (Argentine Section of IBBY-International Board on Books for Young People) and it won CONABIP's bid (Argentine National Commission for Public Libraries) to be selected as one of 137 titles to be purchased and donated to Argentina's 1,100 public libraries.
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In 1979, she was forced to leave the country, coming to the U.S. as a refugee with her daughter where they were reunited with her husband in
Seattle, Washington. In 1985, she told her story of what had happened to her at The Little School in an eponymous book. The world began to open its eyes to the
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After being separated from her husband and daughter in
Argentina, Partnoy's family was finally reunited in 1979. She has three daughters – two born in the U.S., Eva and Anahí, and one born in Argentina, Ruth. Today, Ruth (full name Ruth Irupé Sanabria) is a poet. Partnoy lives in Los Angeles,
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Alicia
Partnoy has lectured and read from her works at hundreds of venues in the U.S and abroad. Her creative works, testimonial texts, and scholarship denounce human rights violations in Latin America and in the world. Many of her works can be found on her official website
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English by Gail Wronsky, received the First Settlement House American Poetry Prize in 2014. The Washington Independent Review of Books selected it as one of the Best 18 Books of and About Poetry of 2015.
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in Bahía Blanca where she stayed for six months only to be transferred to Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires. She spent two and a half years as a prisoner of conscience, with no charges.
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In June 2007, a collection of her poems appeared in the second issue of the avant-garde Hebrew poetry and criticism magazine Daka rendered by Eran
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Partnoy, Alicia (2013). "Concealing God: How
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in Los Angeles, California, where she is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
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Detwiler, Louise A. (2000). "The Blindfolded (Eye)Witness in Alicia Partnoy's "The Little School"".
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Flowering Fires / Fuegos florales, Venganza de la manzana / Revenge of the Apple,
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Partnoy has written numerous academic articles and has contributed chapters to
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Writing prison : women political prisoners and the power of telling
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Writing prison : women political prisoners and the power of telling
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The Reconstructed Subject: Women's Testimonials as Voices of Resistance
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Alicia Partnoy worked towards a bachelor's degree in Literature at the
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The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina
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Happier as a Woman: Transforming Friendships, Transforming Lives.
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and, with her daughter Ruth Irupé Sanabria, the children's book
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Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Argentina
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National Commission for the Investigation of the Disappeared
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treatment of women in reference to the disappearances of
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Partnoy also authored the following poetry collections:
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The Little School tales of disappearance & survival
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The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
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Most recently, it was selected as “the book” for the
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