Andrew Graham-Yooll


Andrew Michael Graham-Yooll OBE was an Argentine journalist, the son of a Scottish father and an English mother. He was the author of about thirty books, written in English and Spanish. A State of Fear has become a classic on the years of terror in Argentina.

Biography

Graham-Yooll joined the Buenos Aires Herald in 1966. Over the next 10 years he also reported from Argentina as a free-lance for numerous English-language publications abroad including The Daily Telegraph. He left the Herald in 1976 when the military dictatorship forced him into exile. 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. From 1998 until December 2007 he was the paper's senior editor. He was the Ombudsman at Perfil.
Before his return to Argentina, Graham-Yooll was a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
In the 2002 New Year Honours, Graham-Yooll was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting and journalism in Argentina. He choose to receive the award at Holyrood Palace as a tribute to his Scottish father.

Selected works

Graham-Yooll has written books such as Uruguay: A Travel and Literary Companion..
In English
  • Uruguay: A Travel and Literary Companion
  • Imperial Skirmishes. War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America
  • The Forgotten Colony. A History of the English-speaking communities in Argentina.
  • History of Argentina, 1876–1999
  • Goodbye Buenos Aires.
  • Committed Observer. Memoirs of a Journalist
  • Point of Arrival. Observations Made on an Extended Visit
  • After the Despots. Latin American Views and Interviews
  • A State of Fear. Memories of Argentina's Nightmare
  • Small Wars You May have Missed.
  • The Forgotten Colony. A History of the English-speaking communities in Argentina
  • Portrait of an Exile
  • The Press in Argentina, 1973–78
In Spanish
  • Buenos Aires, Otoño 1982, Editorial Marea, Buenos Aires, 2007.
  • Tiempo de Tragedias y Esperanzas. Cronología histórica 1955–2005, de Peróna Kirchner.
  • Ocupación y reconquista, 1806–1807. A 200 años de las Invasiones Inglesas. Incluye diario de viaje del Tte.Cnel Lancelot Holland.
  • Agonía y muerte de Juan Domingo Perón.
  • La colonia olvidada. Tres siglos de ingleses en la Argentina.
  • Arthur Koestler, Periodismo y política.
  • Memoria del miedo.
  • Pequeñas guerras británicas en América Latina.
  • Goodbye Buenos Aires.
  • Rosas visto por los ingleses.
  • En blanco y negro. Represión, censura y olvido en Sudáfrica.
  • De Perón a Videla. Argentina 1955–76.
  • Retrato de un exilio.
  • Pequeñas guerras británicas en América Latina.
  • Así vieron a Rosas los ingleses, 1829–1852.
  • La independencia de Venezuela vista por The Times.
  • La censura en el mundo. Antología.
  • Arthur Koestler, del infinito al cero.
  • Lancelot Holland. Viaje al Plata en 1807.. Based on the diary of Lancelot Holland.
  • Tiempo de violencia, Argentina 1972–73.
  • Tiempo de tragedia. Argentina 1966–71.
Poetry
  • Se habla spanglés.
  • Se habla spanglés
  • Day to Day
Anthologies
  • Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Eugene O'Neill,. Bloom's Literary Criticism. Infobase Publishing, New York, 2007.
  • Geografía Lírica Argentina. Cuatro siglos de poesía. Ed. José Isaacson.
  • Acerca de Jorge Luis Borges. Ed. Jorge Dubatti.
  • Exilios. Ed. Albino Gómez.
  • Libros, Personas, Vida: Daniel Divinsky, Kuki Miler y Ediciones de la Flor.
Buenos Aires 1967–1997.
Translations
  • Mafalda comic, up to No 7.
  • Driven by the Wind and Drenched to the Bone. Poetry by Daniel Samoilovich,
  • Cumbia Villera: The Sound of the Slums. Cops, Coke and Cumbia. Index on Censorship. Volume 34, N°3. 2005.
  • War/Guerra. Poetry by Harold Pinter. Bilingual edition.
  • Twenty Poets from Argentina. With Daniel Samoilovich. Bilingual edition
  • Theatre for Identity. Three plays. A propós of doubt, by Patricia Zangaro. Index on Censorship, London, 2001. In Labour, by Marta Betoldi. Index on Censorship, London, 2002. The Interview, by Bruno Luciani. Index on Censorship, London, 2003. All staged at Arcola Theatre, London, July 2003.
  • Individual poets in translation/ Poetas traducidos individualmente.
  • Tennessee Williams, Canto azul. Radar/ Página 12, 25 Feb. 2007.
  • Sylvia Plath, Tedio. Radar/ Página 12, 5 Nov. 2006.
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Radar/ Pagina 12, agosto 14, 2005
  • Robert Pinsky, Página 12, mayo 6, 2002.
  • Andrew Motion, Imagina esto, Luz benévola. Ñ/ Clarín, 3 enero 2004.
  • Siegfried Sassoon, Gloria de mujeres, Absolución, El redentor, Cultura y Nación/ Clarín, 26 abril 2003.
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