Sylvia Iparraguirre

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Sylvia Iparraguirre


Born
in Junín, Argentina
July 04, 1947

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Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. Her novel Tierra del Fuego 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.

Average rating: 3.81 · 737 ratings · 115 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Tierra del Fuego

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3.86 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1998 — 27 editions
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Antes que desaparezca

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El país del viento

3.41 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Clases de literatura rusa

4.36 avg rating — 45 ratings
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La vida invisible

4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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La orfandad

3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Probables lluvias por la noche

3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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El muchacho de los senos de...

3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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Encuentro con Munch

3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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El parque

3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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“For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror.”
Sylvia Iparraguirre, Tierra del Fuego
tags: story

“El mundo sería intolerable sin las historias que lo adornan, que lo magnifican, que lo oscurecen o lo exacerban. Los objetos, la realidad, las ciudades serían mera materia bruta, palpable; ¿qué sería Elsinor sin Hamlet?, ¿qué sería Elsinor, ahí, en Dinamarca (sólo había que cruzar el canal), y su castillo de Kronborg junto a Copenhague? Un nombre como miles, un lugar en el mapa sin ninguna particularidad que lo distinguiera de otros cientos de lugares de Suecia o de Irlanda; todos los lugares terminan pareciéndose.”
Sylvia Iparraguirre, Encuentro con Munch
tags: arte

“¿Qué es el tiempo? ¿Qué son mil años? Un parpadeo de los dioses.”
Sylvia Iparraguirre, Encuentro con Munch

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