She is considered one of the most important people in Argentine culture and literature. And on a day like today, on January 27, 1979, the writer, translator and editor passed away victoria ocampo whose full name was Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina.
What is striking is that this famous author never went to school, although from a very young age she was an avid reader and was educated with private teachers. victoria ocampo He was part of one of the founding families of our country.
Eldest daughter of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre and sister of Silvina, victoria ocampo She received a privileged education and from a very young age took French and English classes. They lived in the Beccar mansion that can currently be visited and is called Villa Ocampo.
The writer He traveled to Europe on several occasions and published his first article in La Nación on “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri. Later he would publish books and found the emblematic Sur magazine. She hosted celebrities like Graham Greene at her Mar del Plata residence.
As far as the heart is concerned, she married Bernardo de Estrada, an aristocratic lawyer, at a very young age, but fell in love with her spouse’s cousin, the diplomat Julián Martínez, with whom she was for 13 years.
At the request of Ocampo, the architect Bustillo, the same one who built several buildings in Patagonia, among them, a house that would be the newsroom of Sur magazine and later owned by the National Endowment for the Arts, in the style of Le Corbusier.
Magazines and emblematic places
The South magazine that created victoria ocampo made national and foreign authors of great relevance known. Among the members of the editorial board were Oliverio Girondo, Jorge Luis Borges, Eduardo Mallea, Guillermo de Torre and María Rosa Oliver.
In 1973, Victoria donated the house of San Isidro to UNESCO, residence of the current Villa Ocampo UNESCO Observatory. His summer residence, Villa Victoria Ocampo, in Mar del Plata, is currently a municipal cultural center.
