Victoria Ocampo
Argentine writer and translator
- Lived
- 1890–1979
- Country
- Argentina
Updated September 2026
About Victoria Ocampo
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo was an Argentine writer and intellectual. 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 was Silvina Ocampo, also a writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and 1974.
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