Sylvia Iparraguirre facts for kids
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.
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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, a member of the Yaghan people from islands around Tierra del Fuego.
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]
See also
In Spanish: Sylvia Iparraguirre para niños
- Lists of writers
Sources
- Bio details and bibliography, Government of Buenos Aires
- Bio details, literatura.org
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