WRITER

Victoria Ocampo

1890 - 1979

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Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo (7 April 1890 – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the 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 was Silvina Ocampo, also a writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victoria Ocampo has received more than 198,773 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Victoria Ocampo is the 1,884th most popular writer (up from 2,281st in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Argentinean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Autobiografi a
1979
Autobiografía
Argentine Authors, Biography
1980
Testimonios
1935
338171 T. E
1942

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victoria Ocampo ranks 1,884 out of 7,302. Before her are Doppo Kunikida, Johnston McCulley, Jovan Dučić, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, and Stig Dagerman. After her are Chuck Palahniuk, Shirley Jackson, Hierocles of Alexandria, Marko Vovchok, Ion of Chios, and Handrij Zejler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Victoria Ocampo ranks 78. Before her are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Bechara El Khoury, Yoshio Nishina, Elpidio Quirino, Seiichi Itō, and He Yingqin. After her are Walter Weiß, Sarah Aaronsohn, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Jacobus Oud, Yitzhak Sadeh, and Henrich Focke. Among people deceased in 1979, Victoria Ocampo ranks 75. Before her are Friedrich Ebert Jr., Jean-Marie Villot, Stein Rokkan, Gio Ponti, Carlo Abarth, and Yvonne de Gaulle. After her are Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Kessel, Henrich Focke, Waldemar de Brito, and Amir-Abbas Hoveyda.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Victoria Ocampo ranks 117 out of 1,154. Before her are Guillermo Mordillo (1932), Mario Bunge (1919), José Pékerman (1949), Sergio Agüero (1988), Luis Carniglia (1917), and Libertad Lamarque (1908). After her are Héctor Babenco (1946), Sergio Goycochea (1963), Amadeo Carrizo (1926), Ángel Di María (1988), Gabriela Sabatini (1970), and Javier Saviola (1981).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Victoria Ocampo ranks 8. Before her are Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), and Alberto Manguel (1948). After her are Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), María Kodama (1937), Jorge Bucay (1949), and Juan Gelman (1930).

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