Sylvia Iparraguirre

{{Short description|Argentine novelist and human rights activist}}

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, a member of the Yaghan people from islands around Tierra del Fuego.

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 [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_27_37/ai_74511426]

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070603103234/http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/com_social/audiovideoteca/iparraguirre_bio_es.php Bio details and bibliography, Government of Buenos Aires]
[http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090705121617/http://literatura.org/Iparraguirre/Iparraguirre.html Bio details, literatura.org]