Francisca Josefa de la Concepción, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francisca Josefa de la Concepción

Colombian nun and writer

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1671

Place of Birth: Tunja, Boyacá Department, Colombia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1742

Profession: writer, priest, nun, autobiographer

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Francisca Josefa de la Concepción (1671–1742) was a Criolla nun and mystic in the region of New Kingdom of Granada which later became Colombia.
The first recorded woman writer of Colombia, her devotional and autobiographical writings were published posthumously.Her work has been studied by Dario Achury Valenzuela, Constanza Toquica, Ángela Inés Robledo, Antonio Gómez Restrepo, Elisa Mújica, José María Vergara y Vergara, and Daniel Alejandro Montes, among others, who recognize her as one of the most prominent writers of Colombian colonial literature.