Javier Sinay

Javier Sinay is a journalist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has published the books Después de las 09:53—AMIA: Cartografía de un atentado (2024), Camino al Este: Crónicas de amor y desarmo (2019), Cuba Stone: Tres historias (co-authored, 2016), Los crímenes de Moisés Ville: Una historia de gauchos y judíos (2013 and 2025—published in 2022 in the United States as The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America, praised by writers such as Paul Theroux and Jon Lee Anderson), and Sangre joven: Matar y morir antes de la adultez (2009—reissued in 2022).

In 2015, he won the Gabriel García Márquez Award from the Gabo Foundation for his essay “Fast. Furious. Dead,” published in Rolling Stone (Argentina), where he also worked as a Deputy Editor. 

His work has appeared in the Buenos Aires newspapers La Nación and Clarín, and in RED/ACCIÓN. Every Saturday, he publishes Sie7e Párrafos, a newsletter about literature and pop culture. 

He was also the South American correspondent for the newspaper El Universal (Mexico) and contributed to Gatopardo (Mexico), Etiqueta Negra (Peru), Jewish Quarterly (UK/Australia), Tablet (USA), Reportagen (Switzerland), and Asymptote (Taiwan). 

He has led workshops and seminars on creative nonfiction writing and narrative journalism in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Spain (Casa América), and the United States (Yale Journalism Initiative, UMass—College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journalism; Brandeis University; Center for Fiction [NY], Grubstreet [Boston], Lighthouse [Denver], The Work Room). His course “Journalistic Crónica Writing” on Domestika [****] launched in 2023, has 1,566 students, and a 100% positive rating (as of January 8, 2026).