Sylvia Iparraguirre

Iparraguirre in 2010

Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist.

Biographic Overview

She was born in Junín, Buenos Aires. Her novel Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. It is a fictionalised account of the life of Jemmy Button.

Books

Her books include:

  • En el invierno de las ciudades (1988), Editorial Galerna, ISBN 950-556-218-7
  • Probables lluvias por la noche (1993) Emecé Editores, ISBN 950-04-1246-2
  • El Parque (1996)
  • Tierra del Fuego - tr. Curbstone Press (2000), ISBN 1-880684-72-1 (also translated into French and German) - reviewed in English at

Further reading

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