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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 186,472 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Victoria Ocampo is the 2,288th most popular writer (down from 1,885th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 107th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 190k

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  • 54.10

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victoria Ocampo ranks 2,288 out of 5,755Before her are Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, Stefan Żeromski, Francesc Eiximenis, S. S. Van Dine, George Whitefield, and Terry Goodkind. After her are Cao Yu, Mir Taqi Mir, Zabel Yesayan, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Juvencus, and Varro Atacinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Victoria Ocampo ranks 88Before her are Paul Strand, He Yingqin, Harold Bride, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Ferruccio Parri, and Clarence Brown. After her are Sarah Aaronsohn, Duke Kahanamoku, Mustafa Shokay, Vasili Eroshenko, Yoshio Nishina, and Emilio Portes Gil. Among people deceased in 1979, Victoria Ocampo ranks 84Before her are Joseph Kessel, Darryl F. Zanuck, Larisa Shepitko, Carlo Abarth, Ahmad Zahir, and Dolores Costello. After her are Wilfred Bion, Waldemar de Brito, Marcel L'Herbier, James J. Gibson, Catherine Hessling, and Santos Urdinarán.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Victoria Ocampo ranks 133 out of 1,019Before her are Amadeo Carrizo (1926), Ricardo Darín (1957), Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1903), Alfio Basile (1943), Adolfo Pedernera (1918), and Onofre Marimón (1923). After her are Fernando Solanas (1936), Attilio Demaría (1909), José Félix Uriburu (1868), Juan Carlos Onganía (1914), Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (1947), and Raúl Prebisch (1901).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Victoria Ocampo ranks 9Before her are Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Manuel Puig (1932), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), and Joseph Kessel (1898). After her are Juan Gelman (1930), María Elena Walsh (1930), Jorge Bucay (1949), María Kodama (1937), Leopoldo Lugones (1874), and Roberto Arlt (1900).