Victoria Ocampo
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Victoria Ocampo CBE (April 7, 1890 - January 27, 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as La mujer más argentina ("The quintessential Argentine woman").
Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the legendary 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, Silvina Ocampo, a writer also, was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares.
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