About Teresa de la Parra
Teresa de la Parra was a Venezuelan novelist. Teresa de la Parra was born on October 5, 1889 and died on April 23, 1936. De la Parra's story Mama X earned first prize in a contest held in a provincial Venezuelan city. This story, as well as her Diary of a young lady who writes because she is bored (which was published in the magazine La Lectura Semanal) was the beginning of her first major work. De la Parra became a sought-after lecturer.
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