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About Silvina Ocampo

Silvina Ocampo (28 July 1903 – 14 December 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other." Her first book was Viaje olvidado (1937), translated as Forgotten Journey (2019), and her final piece was Las repeticiones, published posthumously in 2006.

Before establishing herself as a writer, Ocampo was a visual artist. She studied painting and drawing in Paris where she met, in 1920, Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico, forerunners of surrealism.

She received, among other awards, the Municipal Prize for Literature in 1954 and the National Poetry Prize in 1962.

Silvina Ocampo writes about Fiction, Argentine Short stories, Translations into English, Silvina Ocampo, Poetry, and Argentine poetry. Their best-known work is Antología de la literatura fantástica.

On FindMyTBR we track 7 books by Silvina Ocampo, 6 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Autobiografía de Irene, La furia, and La promesa. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.