Silvina Ocampo

Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet and artist. She trained as a painter in Paris before turning to writing. Her short fiction, including Forgotten Journey and Thus Were Their Faces, followed girls and women caught between who they are and who others expect them to be. Borges called her one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, and she won the National Poetry Prize in 1962.