Angélica Palma

Born in Lima in 1878, Angélica Palma y Román was a Peruvian writer, journalist, and biographer associated with modernismo. She was the daughter of Ricardo Palma, but she became known in her own right through novels, essays, chronicles, and literary profiles that circulated in Peru and beyond.

Her career crossed several kinds of writing. She contributed to magazines and newspapers, published fiction, and wrote biographies, including studies of well-known literary figures. She also played an important part in organizing and editing her father’s legacy, which kept her close to the literary world while she continued shaping her own voice.

Palma is also remembered as an early feminist presence in Peru’s cultural scene. Later readers have valued her not only as the heir to a famous family tradition, but as a versatile author who documented ideas, debates, and personalities of her time. She died in Rosario, Argentina, in 1935.