Victoria Ocampo

Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE (7 April 1890 – 27 January 1979) 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 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Victoria Ocampo

Ocampo in 1931
Born
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo

(1890-04-07)7 April 1890
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died27 January 1979(1979-01-27) (aged 88)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversity of Paris
OccupationWriter
RelativesSilvina Ocampo (sister)
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