Andrew Graham-Yooll

Andrew Graham-Yooll (born 1944 in Buenos Aires), he was the son of a Scottish father and an English mother.[1] He is the author of about thirty books,[2] written in English and Spanish. A State of Fear (Eland, 1986) has become a classic on the years of terror in Argentina.[3]

Graham-Yooll joined the Buenos Aires Herald in 1966. He left the paper in 1976 when the military dictatorship forced him into exile.[4] In Britain he worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, before becoming editor of South magazine in 1985. In 1989 he was appointed editor of Index on Censorship magazine. In 1994 he returned to Argentina and the Buenos Aires Herald, where he became editor-in-chief and president of the board.[5] From 1998 until December 2007 he was the paper’s senior editor. He is now the Ombudsman at Perfil.

Before his return to Argentina, Graham-Yooll was a fellow at the Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge.

Selected works

Graham-Yooll has written books such as Uruguay: A Travel and Literary Companion. (L.O.L.A., Buenos Aires, 2008).[6]

In English

En castellano/In Spanish

Poesía

Anthologies/Antologías

Buenos Aires 1967-1997. (Universidad de Guadalajara, México, 1997)

(Serpent’s Tail, London, 1991)

Translations/Traducciones

Compiler/Compilador

References

  1. Source: BBC website - here (link), accessed 29 September 2014.
  2. This is stated in a 2009 interview, carried by the Argentine Post, accessible here (link), accessed 29 September 2014. However, note that the BBC claim he has written 'only about twenty book', here, accessed 29 September 2014.
  3. "A State of Fear". Eland Books.
  4. This is stated in a 2009 interview, carried by the Argentine Post, accessible here (link), accessed 29 September 2014.
  5. Source: BBC website - here (link), accessed 29 September 2014.
    • Uruguay: A Travel and Literary Companion. (L.O.L.A., Buenos Aires, 2008)
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