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  <name><![CDATA[Irene Vilar]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Author, Editor, Literary Agent 
htpp://www.irenevilar.com
http://www.mertin-litag.de/

&quot;Irene Vilar is a writer of extraordinary passion, erudition, and intelligence&quot;---Tobias Wolff
&quot;Stunning. A Lyrical and visionary memoir of depression, Puerto Rican identity, and young womanhood&quot;--- Kirkus Review on &quot;The Ladies' Gallery (starred)
&quot;Startling, raw, and affecting, a painful exercise in which memoir as therapy becomes memoir as art&quot;---Philadelphia Inquirer Notable Book of the Year (by Carlin Romano)

Read more:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E3DC1738F935A15756C0A96E958260
http://www.criticasmagazine.com/article/CA330197.html 
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA496161.html?text=irene+vilar
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/americas.html
Irene Vilar was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her memoir, The Ladies’ Gallery (Other Press, 2009, originally published in 1996) was a Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press notable book of the year and was short-listed for the 1999 Mind Book of the Year Award. The memoir was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, Univison, CBS, PBS La Plaza, Vogue magazine, New York Times Magazine, and in the Arts’ front page section of The New York Times.

Vilar worked as acquisitions editor for Women and Jewish studies at Syracuse University Press and from 2002 to 2005 served as founder and series editor of The Americas book series published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Currently she is series editor of the Americas at Texas Tech University Press.

She is a literary agent for  Ray-Gude Mertin Literary Agency, an agency specializing in Spanish, Latin American, and Portuguese authors, representing such notable writers as Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago. Vilar is a member of PEN, The Authors Guild, National Writers Union, and MLA.
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