Monday, April 7, 2025

Victoria Ocampo's Birth Anniversary


Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo, born on 7 April 1890, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Her sister was Silvina Ocampo, also a writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and 1974.


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