Sylvia Iparraguirre

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.

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