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Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994) was an Argentine poet and short-fiction writer.
Born in Buenos Aires, the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. She was educated at home by tutors. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo. She studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 17. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioys daughter with another woman; Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampos death, leaving two ...
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