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Silvina Ocampo

Died in 1993

Silvina Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires on 28 July 1903, the youngest of six sisters; the eldest, Victoria Ocampo Aguirre, founded the magazine Sur, where she published her first texts. She studied painting in Paris, as a pupil of Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger, according to La Capital. In 1940, she married the writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. Winner of the National Poetry Prize in 1962, she died in Buenos Aires on 14 December 1993.

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