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Victoria Ocampo

1890 - 1979

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Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo (7 April 1890 – 27 January 1979) 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 on 1970 and 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victoria Ocampo is the 1,908th most popular writer (down from 1,883rd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 117th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victoria Ocampo ranks 1,908 out of 7,302. Before her are E. E. Cummings, Juhani Aho, John Farey Sr., Renée Vivien, Robert Faurisson, and Archestratus. After her are Salvian, Jonas Mekas, Jean Starobinski, Magnús Scheving, Paul Gerhardt, and Bella Akhmadulina.

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Among people born in 1890, Victoria Ocampo ranks 79. Before her are Sarah Aaronsohn, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Norman Bethune, Robert Stroud, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. After her are Jacobus Oud, László Bárdossy, Yoshio Nishina, Henrich Focke, He Yingqin, and Solomon Mikhoels. Among people deceased in 1979, Victoria Ocampo ranks 74. Before her are Friedrich Ebert Jr., Dhyan Chand, Charles Mingus, Stein Rokkan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Darryl F. Zanuck. After her are Henrich Focke, Carlo Abarth, Joseph Kessel, Dirk Stikker, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, and Jan de Klerk.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Victoria Ocampo ranks 119 out of 1,154. Before her are Ricardo Darín (1957), Julio Argentino Roca (1843), Justo José de Urquiza (1801), Sergio Agüero (1988), Juan Román Riquelme (1978), and Guillermo Mordillo (1932). After her are Horacio Pagani (1955), José Félix Uriburu (1868), Arturo Frondizi (1908), Alejandro Scopelli (1908), Attilio Demaría (1909), and Alejandra Pizarnik (1936).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Victoria Ocampo ranks 6. Before her are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Manuel Puig (1932), and Silvina Ocampo (1903). After her are Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Joseph Kessel (1898), María Kodama (1937), Esther Vilar (1935), and María Elena Walsh (1930).

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