Lake Sagaris Explained

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

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

• Sagaris, Lake. Bone and dream : into the world's driest desert. 1st ed. -- Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2000. (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.
• Sagaris, Lake. Medusa's children : a journey from Newfoundland to Chiloé. Regina : Coteau Books, c1993. 142 p. : map ; 23 cm.
• Sagaris, Lake. Exile home = Exilio en la patria. [Dunvegan, Ont.] : Cormorant Books, Casa Canadá, c1986. 104 p. ; 23 cm. Poems in English and Spanish.

External links

• 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

1. Web site: European Cyclists' Federation. 31 March 2016.
2. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/94F80F0A-6273-4CDF-A761-D9F13687CE7E/0/GGLAcumulativefinalistsincl2006.pdf Canada Council for the Arts - Cumulative list of finalists
3. http://www.sources.com/SSR/Docs/Winners41.htm 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