Teresa de la Parra: Women who reflected gender inequality in the 20th century (+birth)

Published at: 05/10/2024 08:17 AM

On October 5, 1889, Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo was born in Paris, France, to become one of the most outstanding creators of Venezuelan literature. She ventured into the world of letters hand in hand with journalism and wrote two novels that immortalized her throughout America: Iphigenia and Memories of the White Mother, under the pseudonym Teresa de la Parra.

When Ana Teresa was two years old, she was brought to Venezuela where she enjoyed her childhood in the quiet farm El Tazón, owned by her family, located between Tumerito and Piedra Azul. After completing her studies at school in 1915, Ana Teresa traveled to Paris where she stayed for a while before returning to Caracas. By this time he had already written several short stories under the pseudonym Fru-Fru.

His return to Venezuela, in the midst of a gomecist dictatorship, allows him to collect experiences that would mean a great influence on the development of his narrative. Since her arrival in the country, Ana Teresa began to reveal herself as a writer thanks to several articles published in different newspapers in the capital.

The success of her stories and articles, published in Caracas newspapers, impelled her to write her first novel, the Diary of a Young Lady, a title that would change moments before its publication to that of Iphigenia.

In 1924, this work, which won first prize in a literary contest in the City, presented for the first time in the country the drama of women faced with a society that did not allow them to have their own voice and whose only option of life, according to society, was legally constituted marriage. For this reason, the title of Iphigenia refers to the Greek character and to the sacrifice.

He died in Madrid, Spain, due to tuberculosis, at the age of 46, in 1936.

Mazo News Team