Sylvia Iparraguirre

Sylvia Iparraguirre (b. 1947, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina) has published several short story collections, novels, and essays, and has co-edited a number of magazines, including El Escarabajo de Oro and El ornitorrinco, the latter in the face of censorship and military dictatorship. In 1999, her novel La tierra del fuego was named Book of the Year at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair and was awarded the prestigious Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Iparraguirre was also awarded the Premio Esteban Echeverría in 2012 in recognition of her body of work and the Premio Konex de Platino in 2014 for Encuentro con Munch. Iparraguirre is still actively writing and teaching postgraduate courses at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and in 2021 she published a new novel, Antes que desaparezca. She is also working with writer Liliana Heker on a book of her late husband Abelardo Castillo’s correspondence with Julio Cortázar.