Sylvia Iparraguirre
Argentine writer
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| Intro | Argentine writer | |
| Places | Argentina | |
| is | Writer Novelist | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1947, Junín, Junín Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina | |
| Age | 78 years |
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Biography
Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. 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.
She was born in Junín, Buenos Aires.
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 [1]