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Silvina Ocampo (28 July 1903 – 14 December 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. [1] 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." [2] Her first book was Viaje olvidado (1937), translated as ...
Oct 26, 2019 · Surrealist writer and poet Silvina Ocampo has been called "the best kept secret of Argentine letters," and two new translations have beautifully captured her evocative prose style for new readers.
Oct 29, 2019 · Silvina Ocampo in English. “To be an edgy woman writer in the early twentieth century, Silvina risked invisibility (except for the happy few readers).”. In anticipation of City Lights’s publication of Silvina Ocampo’s Forgotten Journey (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan) and The Promise (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica ...
Dec 14, 1993 · Silvina Ocampo Aguirre was a poet and short-fiction writer. Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur. Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico.
Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) was an Argentine writer, storyteller and poet. She was born in Buenos Aires to a family deeply rooted in Argentine cultural circles. She was the sister of writer and founder of Sur magazine, Victoria Ocampo, wife of the writer Adolfo Bioy Casares and a friend of Jorge Luis Borges. For much of her life, her figure was ...
Apr 23, 2020 · City Lights, 103 pp., $14.95 (paper) Silvina Ocampo Estate. Silvina Ocampo at her family’s summer home near Buenos Aires, 1933–1934. Literary debuts are generally terrifying for the debutant. The Argentinian writer Silvina Ocampo, however—publishing her first short-story collection at thirty-four, in 1937, after beginning to doubt her ...
Silvina Ocampo has been described as having practiced the art of hiding in plain view. She remained a shadowy presence within the literary group which included her sister Victoria, the founder of Sur, Jorge Luis Borges, its most famous contributor, José Bianco, Sur 's director, and Adolfo Bioy Casares, enfant terrible and Silvina's husband, to name just the obvious connections.
