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Silvina Ocampo

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Also known as Silvina Ocampo Aguirre

Argentine writer (1903–1993)

Person · Open Library

Works
103

Top works

  • Las invitadas
  • Antología de la literatura fantástica
  • Poemas
  • Poemas / Poems
  • Poemas

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
9
Total plays
23

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Key facts

Born
( 1903-07-28 ) 28 July 1903, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died
14 December 1993 (1993-12-14) (aged 90), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting place
La Recoleta Cemetery , Buenos Aires
Occupations
Writer poet
Spouse
Adolfo Bioy Casares , ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1940 ) ​
Relatives
Victoria Ocampo (sister)

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Encyclopedic overview

Silvina Ocampo (28 July 1903 – 14 December 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other." Her first book was Viaje olvidado (1937), translated as Forgotten Journey (2019), and her final piece was Las repeticiones, published posthumously in 2006.

Before establishing herself as a writer, Ocampo was a visual artist. She studied painting and drawing in Paris where she met, in 1920, Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico, forerunners of surrealism.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silvina Ocampo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.