Andrew Graham-Yooll

Andrew Graham-Yooll was born in 1944 in Buenos Aires of a Scottish father and English Mother. He is the author of about twenty books, written in English and Spanish. "A State of Fear" has become a classic on the years of terror in Argentina. It was first published by Eland Books in 1986.

Graham-Yooll joined the Buenos Aires Herald in 1966. He left the paper 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 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.

elected Works

English Language Titles

*Committed Observer. Memoirs of a Journalist. (John Llibbey, London, Julio, 1995)
*Point of Arribal. Observations Made on an Extended Visit. (to Britain). (Pluto Press, Marzo, 1992).
*After the Despots. Latin American Views and Interviews. (Bloomsbury, London, 1986).
*A State of Fear. Memories of Argentina's Nightmare. Eland Books, London, 1983).
*Small Wars You May Have Missed (in South America). (Junction Books, London,1983)
*The Forgotten Colony. A history of the English-Speaking Communities in Argentina. (Hutchinson, London, 1981).
*Portrait of an Exile. (Junction Books, London, 1981).
*The Press in Argentina, 1973-1978. (Writers & Scholars Educationals Trust, London, 1979).

Spanish Language Titles

*Rosas visto por los ingleses. Editorial de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, 1997.
*Goodbye Buenos Aires. Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires, 1997
*En blanco y negro. Represión, censura y olvido en Sudráfica. Tempestad, Barcelona, 1992.
*De Perón a Videla. Argentina 1955-1976. Legasa, Buenos Aires, 1989.
*Retrato de un exilio. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1985.
*Pequeñas guerras británicas en América Latina. Legasa, Buenos Aires, 1985.
*Así vieron a Rosas los ingleses, 1829-1852. Rodolfo Alonso, Buenos Aires, 1980.
*La independencia de Venezuela vista por The Times. Libros de Hoy del diario de Caracas, 1980.
*La censura en el mundo. Antología. Libros de hoy del diario de Caracas, 1980.
*Arthur Koestler, del cero al infinito. Altalena, Madrid, 1978.
*Lancelot Holland. Viaje al Plata en 1807. Eudeba, Buenos Aires, 1976.
*Tiempo de violencia. Argentina 1972-73. Granica, Buenos Aires, 1972.

Poetry

*Se habla spanglés. Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires, 1972.
*Day to day. Buenos Aires, 1973.