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Juana Manuela Gorriti
1818–1892
A pioneering voice in 19th-century South American literature, she wrote fiction, journalism, and memoir shaped by exile, politics, and public life across Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Her work helped open literary space for women in the region and is still remembered for its energy, independence, and imagination.
2 Audiobooks
Argentina, Legend and History
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio) Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre
Oasis en la vida
by Juana Manuela Gorriti
About the author
Born in 1818, she became one of the best-known women writers of 19th-century Spanish America. Sources consistently describe her as an Argentine author with deep ties to Bolivia and Peru, and as an important early novelist and journalist whose life was closely connected to the political upheavals of her time.
After her family went into exile, she spent years outside Argentina and moved through literary and political circles in several countries. She was married to Manuel Isidoro Belzu, who later served as president of Bolivia, and her writing often drew on the world around her: civil conflict, memory, travel, and the lives of women.
She died in 1892, but her reputation endured. She is remembered not only for individual books and chronicles, but also for helping build a place for women in public literary culture in Latin America.