Teresa Parra

Teresa de la Parra (1889–1936) was a Venezuelan writer. She was born in Paris to a Venezuelan diplomat and spent her childhood first in Venezuela and later in Spain. She moved between Europe and Latin America throughout her life. In the 1920s, she gave lectures and published essays on the role of women during the colonial period, criollismo, and Simón Bolívar. She also wrote diaries and short stories. Her best-known works include the novels *Ifigenia* (1924) and *Las memorias de Mamá Blanca* (1929).