Sylvia Iparraguirre
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Sylvia Iparraguirre 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
.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize] is a prize awarded to women writers in Spanish. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The prize is worth 100,000 pesos...
for women writers in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. It is a fictionalised account of the life of Jemmy Button
Jemmy Button
Orundellico, known as "Jeremy Button" or "Jemmy Button", was a native Fuegian of the Yaghan people from islands around Tierra del Fuego, in modern Chile and Argentina...
.
Books
Her books include:- En el invierno de las ciudades (1988), Editorial Galerna, ISBN 9505562187
- Probables lluvias por la noche (1993) Emecé Editores, ISBN 9500412462
- El Parque (1996)
- Tierra del Fuego - tr. Curbstone Press (2000), ISBN 1880684721 (also translated into French and German) - reviewed in English athttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_27_37/ai_74511426