| 词条 | Irene Vilar |
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| name = Irene Vilar | image = Irene Vilar gary isaacs.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = c. {{birth year and age|1969}} | birth_place = Arecibo, Puerto Rico[1] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Editor, literary agent, author | nationality = American | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Syracuse University | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = 2 | relatives = Lolita Lebrón (grandmother) | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://www.irenevilar.com}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904224305/http://www.irenevilar.com |date=September 4, 2014 }} | portaldisp = }}Irene Vilar (born c. 1969) is a Puerto Rican American editor, literary agent, environmental advocate,and author of several books dealing with national and generational trauma and women's reproductive rights. Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Vilar is the granddaughter of Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, who participated in an assault on the United States House of Representatives in 1954.[2] Her work A Memoir of Family Secrets was a Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press notable book of the year, a finalist for the Mind Book of the Year Award and the Latino Book Award.[1] Her memoir, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict, revealed that the author had 15 abortions in 17 years.[3] Vilar received death threats after its publication.[4] Vilar previously worked as an acquisitions editor for Women and Jewish studies at Syracuse University Press{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}. From 2002 to 2005, she was the founding series editor of The Americas book series published by the University of Wisconsin Press{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}. Presently she is a series editor at Texas Tech University Press{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}. She founded her own literary agency, Vilar Creative Agency, and serves as a co-agent in the United States for Ray-Gude Mertin Literary Agency, an agency specializing in Spanish, Latin American, and Portuguese authors, which represented writers as 1998 Nobel Prize laureate Jose Saramago{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}. In 2010, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}. Early life{{Empty section|date=October 2018}}Works
References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=112334|website=Penguin Random House|title=Irene Vilar}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Vilar, Irene}}2. ^Memoir of a former abortion addict from the Los Angeles Times 13 October 2009 3. ^American'>'abortion addict' reveals she terminated 15 pregnancies in 17 years from The Daily Mail 14 October 2009 4. ^Death Threats, Hate Mail for 'Abortion Addict' Author from ABC News 14 October 2009 10 : 1969 births|Living people|People from Arecibo, Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican self-help writers|Puerto Rican women writers|American memoirists|Guggenheim Fellows|Women memoirists|Syracuse University alumni|American women non-fiction writers |
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