Victoria Ocampo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victoria Ocampo

Argentine writer

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1890

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1979

Profession: writer, translator, publisher, critic

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Victoria Ocampo (7 April 1890 – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as La mujer más argentina ("The quintessential Argentine woman").
Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time.
Her sister, Silvina Ocampo, also a writer, was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares.