Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994) was a prominent Argentine intellectual and poet.
Born in Buenos Aires, the youngest of the six children of Manuel Silvino Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo. She studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whom she met in 1933 and married in 1940. She had one daughter, Marta, born in 1954. She died in Buenos Aires in 1994.
External link
A Spanish-language page on Ocampo (http://www.literatura.org/Ocampo/Ocampo.html) with a good bibliography of works by and about her.
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