Carmen Aguirre
CBC Books | | Posted: June 20, 2018 8:52 PM | Last Updated: March 6, 2019
Carmen Aguirre is an author, actor and playwright currently living in Vancouver, B.C. Aguirre came to Canada when she was six years old. She returned to Chile as a young woman to join the underground resistance movement against the country's military dictatorship. She returned to Canada in 1990, where she began working as an actor, playwright and writer. She has written and co-written 25 plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Refugee Hotel and Blue Box.
Aguirre is the author of two memoirs: Something Fierce and Mexican Hooker #1. Something Fierce won Canada Reads 2012, when it was defended by Shad.
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