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Angélica Palma
1883–1935
A sharp, modern voice in Peruvian letters, this writer blended fiction, journalism, and biography while pushing against the limits placed on women in her time. Her work moves between literary elegance and clear-eyed social observation.
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Crónicas de Marianela
by Angélica Palma
About the author
Born in Lima on November 24, 1878, María Angélica Palma y Román became a Peruvian writer, journalist, and biographer associated with the Modernist movement. She was the daughter of Ricardo Palma, but she built a literary path of her own through novels, essays, chronicles, and biographical writing.
She was also an important early feminist voice in Peru. Alongside her literary work, she took part in public and intellectual life, and her writing often paid close attention to social expectations, especially those shaping women's lives.
Palma died in Rosario, Argentina, on October 25, 1935. Though she is sometimes listed with different birth years, the sources reviewed here most consistently identify 1878 as her year of birth, making her a notable figure in Latin American literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.