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Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (1928-1983), originally from the Basque countries in Spain, was a novelist and playwright. The Dead Girls (Granta 5, 1982) was his first work to appear in English. In 1955, Ibargüengoitia was awarded a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City, and in 1960, he received the Mexico City Literary Award. He died in a plane crash in 1983.  

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The Dead Girls

Jorge Ibargüengoitia

'For years it seemed like God was with them. While my husband and Iost everything three times through honest work, my sisters were getting rich off immorality.'

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