Andrew Michael Graham-Yooll OBE (5 January 1944 – 5 July 2019) 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 (Eland, 1986) 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. (L.O.L.A., Buenos Aires, 2008). In English In Spanish Poetry Anthologies Buenos Aires 1967–1997. (Universidad de Guadalajara, México, 1997) Translations Compiler