Sylvia Iparraguirre transcribes the Russian literature classes she taught at Malba. “I am always in a state of learning, of being surprised”, says the acclaimed Argentine writer.

‘I was lucky that there were always books in my house, my father really liked to read, he knew Martín Fierro by heart’ ‘My entire library: the Russians, the Anglo-Saxons, my contemporaries, both here and abroad’