Silvina Ocampo
Argentine writer (1903–1993) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silvina Ocampo (28 July 1903 – 14 December 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.[1] 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."[2] Her first book was Viaje olvidado (1937), translated as Forgotten Journey (2019), and her final piece was Las repeticiones, published posthumously in 2006.
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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 |
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Relatives | Victoria Ocampo (sister) |
Before establishing herself as a writer, Ocampo was a visual artist.[3] She studied painting and drawing in Paris where she met, in 1920, Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico, forerunners of surrealism.[4]
She received, among other awards, the Municipal Prize for Literature in 1954 and the National Poetry Prize in 1962.