Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo was born on the 7 th April 1890; she died on the 27 th January 1979. She was an argentine writer and an intellectual. Sh...
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Victoria Ocampo was born on the 7th April 1890; she died on
the 27th January 1979. She was an argentine writer and an
intellectual. She was described to be La mujermás argentine by Jorge Luis Borges. She was best known to be an
advocate for other people and she was also known to be a published of the
legendary literary magazine of the country called Sur. She was one of the most
prominent women writers from the southern America during her time. Her sister
called SilvinaOcampa, who was also a writer, got married to Adolfo BioyCasares.
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Biography
Victoria Ocampo was born with the name Ramona Victoria
EpifaníaRufinaOcampo in Buenos Aires into a high-class society family. She got
her education at home by a French governess.
Victoria Ocampo is sometimes said to have attended the Sorbonne. In the
year 1912, Victoria Ocampo got married to Bernando de Estrada. The marriage was
not enjoyed and in the year 1920, they separated and Victoria Ocampo her 13
year relationship with her husband’s cousin called JuliánMartínez,
who was a diplomat.
In the city of Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo was a lynchpin of the intellectual stage of the 1920s and
the 1930s. Her debut book called De Francesca à Beatrice was written with the French language in the
year 1923. Some of her other works are Domingos en Hyde Park;
El Hamlet de Laurence Olivier; Emily Brontë.
Victoria Ocampo was the founder of the and publisher of the Sur magazine
in the country in the year 1931, Sur was the most essential literary magazine
of its time in the Latin America. Some of the writers of the country that
published in the magazine were Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato,
Adolfo BioyCasares, Julio Cortázar, José Ortega y Gasset, Manuel Peyrou, Albert
Camus, Enrique Anderson Imbert, José Bianco, Santiago Davobe, EzequielMartínez
Estrada, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Waldo Frank, Gabriela Mistral, Eduardo
Mallea, SilvinaOcampo, Alfonso Reyes, and Enrique Pezzoni.
At the time of the 2nd
World War, Victoria Ocampo supported
and edited from the country together with her friend and a translator called PelegrinaPastorino,
the anti-Nazi magazine called LettresFrancaises, which
was directed by Roger Caillois. In the year 1946, she was the only person from
the country that attended the Nuremberg Trials.
She was shortly sent
to prison for her open opposition to the government of Juan Domingo Perón.
Victoria Ocampo was made a member of the Agentine Academy of Letters in
the year 1976.
Honors
Ø Maria
Moors Cabot prize
Ø Commander
of the Order of the British Empire
Ø Doctor
honoriscausa– Harvard University, Columbia University
Ø Premio
de Honor de la SADE
Ø Gold
Medal – Académiefrançaise
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