Sylvia Iparraguirre
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Iparraguirre in 2010
Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
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 [1]
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Categories:
- Argentine people of Basque descent
- Argentine women novelists
- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Junín, Buenos Aires
- 20th-century Argentine novelists
- 20th-century Argentine women writers
- Argentine writer stubs