Victoria Ocampo

KKD (poet, novelist, playwright, translator, scholar, and critic of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) grew up and was educated in Calcutta, but has lived in or near Oxford for most of her adult life...

She went on to publish poems and articles in various Indian literary journals, including the newspaper Anandabazar Patrika. In 1979 she reviewed Doris Meyer 's biography Victoria Ocampo : Against the Wind and the...

KKD incorporated into her Bengali novel Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhaney (In Search of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo) her scholarly research on the relationship between these two Argentinian writers.

KKD published In Your Blossoming Flower-Garden, a study of the correspondence of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo (who as well as a writer was reputedly Tagore's muse).

Thirty years later she maintained that because of [c]hastity and modesty there had never been an autobiography by a woman (not one to match, for instance, Rousseau 's), but she often encouraged other women to...

KKD illuminates the relationship between Tagore and Ocampo, which began in 1924 when Tagore moved to Buenos Aires to write for the daily La Nación, but her main aim is to recuperate Victoria Ocampo...

In the mid-1980s, KKD travelled to Buenos Aires, where she did research on the lives of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo (Tagore's muse and a writer in her own right). New Delhi's Indian Council for Cultural Relations