Lake Sagaris (born 1956 in

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) is a Canadian journalist, poet, writer, urban planner, translator, and community leader who lives in

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. 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. 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. She won first prize in the Periodical Writers Association of Canada Magazine and Newspaper Travel Writing Contest 1997 for her article "Norte Grande."Sources 41 - The Winners
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Books

*Sagaris, Lake. ''Bone and dream : into the world's driest desert''. 1st ed. -- Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2000. (about the

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in Chile) *Sagaris, Lake. ''After the first death : a journey through Chile, time, mind''. Toronto : Somerville House Publishing, c1996. xxviii, 401 p., 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''. unvegan, Ont.: Cormorant Books, Casa Canadá, c1986. 104 p. ; 23 cm. Poems in English and Spanish.

External links

Lake Sagaris
Official site.

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080829192905/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1525/is_1_84/ai_53501832 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

*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
Living people 1956 births 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian emigrants to Chile Canadian women journalists Canadian women poets Journalists from Montreal Writers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian women non-fiction writers {{Canada-journalist-stub