She was an avid supporter of women’s rights and co-founded the Argentine Women’s Union. She translated many works herself, including some by William Faulkner, DH Lawrence, and Albert Camus. In its forty-five-year run, the journal introduced readers to new Latin American, North American, and European authors. Editorial Sur was the first to publish several Argentine writers, including Jorge Luis Borges. She is best known for founding the prestigious literary magazine Sur(South) (1931) and a publishing company by the same name (1933). She published close to twenty books, mostly collected essays, including Testimonios (Testimonies) (1935-1977), which is a ten-volume series that is in equal parts political commentary, literary criticism, and autobiography. Victoria Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1890.
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