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Silvina Ocampo

1903 - 1993

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Silvina Ocampo is the 1,762nd most popular writer (down from 1,589th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 91st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Among writers, Silvina Ocampo ranks 1,762 out of 7,302. Before her are Bob Woodward, Mór Jókai, Adalberon, Antonio Skármeta, Nora Ephron, and Minna Canth. After her are Baba Tahir, Shūsaku Endō, Junji Ito, Dominique Venner, Marie Under, and R. L. Stine.

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Among people born in 1903, Silvina Ocampo ranks 94. Before her are Bob Hope, Henry Corbin, Charlotte Perriand, Nico Diederichs, Werner Ostendorff, and Otto Abetz. After her are Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Nikos Zachariadis, Victor Brauner, Elisha Cook Jr., Arpad Elo, and Benjamin Spock. Among people deceased in 1993, Silvina Ocampo ranks 64. Before her are Roy Raymond, Eddie Constantine, Yen Chia-kan, Eleanor Hibbert, Yuri Lotman, and Tofiq Bahramov. After her are Raymond Burr, Sebastiano Baggio, Meliton Kantaria, Hervé Villechaize, Thomas Watson Jr., and Jimmy Doolittle.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Silvina Ocampo ranks 104 out of 1,154. Before her are Ariel Ramírez (1921), Bernard Blier (1916), Ubaldo Fillol (1950), Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (1947), Jorge Burruchaga (1962), and Juan Sebastián Verón (1975). After her are Héctor Rial (1928), Héctor Germán Oesterheld (1919), Alejandro Sabella (1954), Diego Milito (1979), Libertad Lamarque (1908), and Héctor Babenco (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Silvina Ocampo ranks 5. Before her are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), and Manuel Puig (1932). After her are Victoria Ocampo (1890), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Joseph Kessel (1898), María Kodama (1937), Esther Vilar (1935), and María Elena Walsh (1930).

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