Silvina Ocampo 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.
Luisa Valenzuela Levinson is an Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí is a contemporary writer, videoartist and documentary photographer.
Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.
César Aira is an Argentinian writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature. Aira has published over a hundred short books of stories, novels and essays. In fact, at least since 1993, a hallmark of his work is a truly frenetic level of writing and publication—two to five novella-length books each year. He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.
Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, essayist and art critic.
María Dhialma Tiberti was an Argentine writer. Married to the well known scientist Gregorio Baro, she studied at the Escuela Normal Nº1 Mary O’Graham, and later on, literature and history, at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She was responsible for the Del Bosque editions, composed of works of other well-known writers, such as Raúl Amaral, Horacio Ponce de León, Ana Emilia Lahite, and María de Villarino, who were all part of the so-called Generation del 40.
Josefina Passadori was an Italian-Argentine academic, educator, and writer. She published several textbooks as well as poetry under the pen name Fröken Thelma.
Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre was an influential Argentine author and journalist.
Ana María Shua is an Argentine writer. She is particularly well known for her work in microfiction.
Malena Grisel Alterio Bacaicoa is an Argentine-born Spanish actress. She became a television icon in Spain for her performance in sitcom Aquí no hay quien viva, playing the role of Belén López Vázquez. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Goya Award for Best Actress for her performance in Something Is About to Happen (2023).
Paola Caracciolo, better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator.
Marta Traba Taín was an art critic and writer known for her contributions to Latin American art and literature.
María Esther de Miguel was an Argentinian writer.
Margarita Elena Chiozza was an Argentinian geographer. She graduated in history from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Buenos Aires.
Azucena Galettini is an Argentinean writer and translator. She holds a BA in Latin-American Literature by Universidad de Buenos Aires and a BA in Translation (English-Spanish) by Instituto en Educación Superior en Lenguas Vivas “J. R. Fernández”.
Hebe Uhart was an Argentine writer. In 2017, she received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award.
Julia Wernicke was an Argentine painter and engraver. She is known as the first animalist painter from Argentina and incorporated exotic animals into her paintings. She paved the way for female artists in Argentina through many firsts, especially within the discipline of engraving. Wernicke was one of the first women to have an individual exhibition of works in Buenos Aires, in 1897; and the first person to have an individual exhibition of engraved etchings in Argentina, in 1909.
Daniela Alcívar Bellolio is an Ecuadorian author, editor, and literary critic.
Nora Domínguez is a full professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a co-founder of the Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género at the University of Buenos Aires, which introduced gender studies as an academic field in 1992. Between 2010 and 2017, she was the director of the institute. Her book De dónde vienen los niños. Maternidad y escritura en la cultura argentina won the Essay Prize from the National Arts Foundation. In 2021, she published El revés del rostro. Figuras de la exterioridad en la cultura argentina, which won the Humanities Prize for the Southern Cone from the Latin American Studies Association in 2022. She is currently directing a six-volume work to compile the series Historia feminista de la literatura argentina. The first volume in the series was released in 2020.
