Belén López Peiró (born February 24, 1992, in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine book writer and columnist.[1] Signed to Libros Penguin, she is best known for her 2018 release, "Por Que Volvías Cada Verano?" ("Why Did You Return Every Summer?") in which she detailed the sexual abuse she allegedly survived.
López Peiró is also a columnist for El País, a Spaniard newspaper with a nationwide reach in her adopted country of Spain.[2]
Early life
editLópez Peiró was born in 1992, the daughter of a journalist mother.[3] By some accounts, she spent a mostly happy childhood,[2] until the rapes and sexual molestation by her uncle-in-law allegedly started taking place after she turned 13.
López Peiró visited her aunt in the city of Santa Lucia, in Argentina, during summers. It was while there, that the rapes of her by her uncle in law, a policeman by the name of Claudio Sarlo, the city's sheriff, allegedly took place.[4] According to López Peiró, this situation took place from the time she was 13, until she was 17.
Eventually, she became a student at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), from where she graduated with a degree in communication sciences.[5] She also studied journalism at the Taller Escuela Agencia (TEA). At the UBA, she was a student of well-known writer Gabriela Cabezon Camara.[6]
Career
editBy 2014, López Peiró worked as an editor for a newspaper in Argentina, when she figured that many of the stories she came across as an editor reminded her of her own.[7]
Her first book, "Por qué volvías cada verano?", was published by Spain's Editorial Las Afueras on November 16, 2020.[8] That book was also published in Portuguese,[9] Italian[10] and French.[11] Her second book, titled "Donde no Hago Pie" ("Where I Would Not Go To") was released on March 1, 2021, by Publicadora Lumen.[12] Both books deal directly with the sexual abuse she was allegedly subjected to.
Uncle in law's trial
editDuring 2014, López Peiró accused sheriff Sarlo of rape.[3] The case took eight years to be decided, but on December 19, 2022, it went to court. Five days later, on December 24, Sarlo was declared guilty.[4] He was then sentenced to ten years in jail.[13]
Books impact on women
editLópez Peiró's book "Porque Volvias Cada Verano?" and her activism inspired Brazilian actress Thelma Fardin and others, such as Gianella Neyra, to speak about their own abuse cases. In Fardin's case, she accused her countryman, actor Juan Darthes, of sexual abuse towards Fardin.[14]
Personal life
editBelén López Peiró lives in Barcelona, Spain.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Belén López Peiró: "En primera persona el abuso sexual no puede ser contado. El abuso es colectivo"". Vogue España. December 10, 2020.
- ^ a b Jaén, Braulio García (March 6, 2022). "Belén López Peiró, la cronista del silencio en los abusos sexuales". El País.
- ^ a b ""Su condena me dio la libertad". Su tío la violó de niña, contó su dolor en dos libros y logró la sentencia: la historia de Belén López Peiró". LA NACION. January 22, 2023.
- ^ a b ""Se acabó": condenaron por abuso sexual a 10 años de prisión en suspenso al tío de la escritora Belén López Peiró | Ciudadanos". La Voz del Interior.
- ^ "Taller virtual Lectura y escritura en clave feminista".
- ^ Sinay, Javier (April 6, 2021). "Belén López Peiró cuenta la oscuridad y la redención, segunda parte".
- ^ de 2023, Por Verónica Abdala3 de Enero. "Belén López Peiró acusó a su tío de abuso, escribió sobre eso y ahora llegó la justicia: "La sentencia confirma todos los hechos"". infobae.
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- ^ Peiró, Belén López (June 19, 2021). Breda, Tadeu (ed.). "Por que você voltava todo verão?: Belén López Peiró". Editora Elefante – via Amazon.
- ^ Peiró, Belén López (March 3, 2022). "Perché tornavi ogni estate". La Nuova Frontiera – via Amazon.
- ^ Peiró, Belén López (September 1, 2022). "Pourquoi tu revenais tous les étés ?". Globe – via Amazon.
- ^ Peiró, Belén López (March 1, 2021). "Donde no hago pie". LUMEN – via Amazon.
- ^ ""Ya está. Terminó. Me liberé": la escritora argentina que denunció a un tío abusador en una novela y ahora logró que la justicia lo condene" – via www.bbc.com.
- ^ de 2019, 8 de Enero. "La novelista que contó la historia de su violación e inspiró la denuncia de Thelma Fardín". infobae.
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