Teresa de la Parra: Distinguished writer who defended women's rights with her works (+planting)

On April 23, 1936, in the city of Madrid, Spain, the Venezuelan writer Ana Teresa de la Parra died, a teacher of Hispanic literature who courageously and with unparalleled majesty, portrayed the cruelty of a patriarchal society that subjugated women, condemning them to silence and suffering.

This distinguished writer was born in the city of Paris, France on October 5, 1889, because her father Rafael Parra was in the French capital as consul of Venezuela, a position from which he was deposed when Teresa was only two years old, so they returned to the country.

From a very young age, she was interested in the art of writing, going so far as to publish stories in the newspaper “El Universal”, under the pseudonym Fru Fru de la Parra.

In 1924, she decided to adopt the name of Teresa de la Parra, to publish her first novel, which she entitled “Iphigenia”, a work that earned her the prize of the Hispano-American Institute of French Culture and placed her in the spotlight of Latin literature alongside figures such as Gabriela Mistral.

The death of this teacher of Hispanic literature occurred as a result of tuberculosis and her remains rest in the National Pantheon.

Today, 88 years after her physical departure, the Venezuelan people highlight the work of this illustrious Venezuelan woman, who broke the silence to which women were subjected, a product of patriarchy that is the legacy of a model of society based on exploitation, inequality and exclusion.

Mazo News Team