Alicia Kozameh is an Argentine

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Alicia Kozameh studied philosophy

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 and literature

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 at the University of Rosario from 1973 to 1975, and at the University of Buenos Aires

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 from 1985 to 1987. Her studies were interrupted from September 1975 until December 1978 while she was detained as a political prisoner

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 during Argentina's most recent military dictatorship. After her release, she continued to suffer constant repression and persecution, and was forced to go into exile

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 in 1980, first in California

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, and later in Mexico

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During her exile, she published works in Mexico and California and wrote her first novel, El séptimo sueño (The Seventh Dream), an unpublished manuscript

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 about prison.