Teresa de la Parra

Teresa de la Parra (Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo) was born in October 5th, 1889 in Paris, daughter of Venezuelan Ambassador in Berlin, Rafael Parra Hernáiz and Isabel Sanojo de Parra.

She was author of the novels "Iphigenia: Journal of a lady who wrote because she was bored"'' (published in 1924) and "Mamá Blanca's Souvenirs''" (published in 1929). Her novel "Iphigenia..." was a hard social critic which caused big controversy in Venezuela and Colombia, but was well accepted in countries like France and Spain.

Besides her novels, she wrote some short tales, conferences, personal letters and a private journal which have become a part of her literary work. Teresa de la Parra wasn't know only because of her writing, but also because of her revolutionary ideas about female role in society by then.

After long travels around Latin America and Europe to promote her work and ideas she had the project to write a biography of Simón Bolívar. By that time she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and died in Madrid in April 23th, 1936, at the age of 46.