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. 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 2^nd 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