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.

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.

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