Victoria Ocampo Aguirre

Victoria Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires on 7 April 1890, according to escritores.org and Encyclopedia.com. Raised by tutors, she spoke French, English and Italian and attended classes at the Sorbonne in 1908. In 1931 she founded the journal Sur, and in 1933 the publishing house of the same name. Co-founder in 1936 of the Argentine Women's Union, imprisoned for nearly a month in 1953 under Perón, she became in 1977 the first woman elected to the Argentine Academy of Letters. She died in San Isidro on 27 January 1979.

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