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Teresa de la Parra

Died in 1936

Teresa de la Parra was born in Paris in 1889 into a Venezuelan family and spent part of her childhood on her father's hacienda of Tazón, near Caracas. After her father's death, her mother took her to Spain, where she was brought up at the Sacré-Cœur boarding school in Godella. Back in Venezuela, she settled in Paris in 1923. She left two novels and lectures on the influence of women in the formation of America, which she gave in Bogotá. Suffering from tuberculosis, she spent her last years in a sanatorium and died in Madrid in 1936.

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