Victoria Gucovsky

Victoria Gucovsky (1890–1969) was an Argentine writer and a prominent socialist activist of the early 20th century. She was born in Genoa to parents of Russian-Jewish origin. Her father Gabriel Gucovsky was an engineer and a poet. He died in 1894 when Victoria was still a child. Her mother Fenia Chertkoff and two more Chertkoff aunts decided to migrate to Argentina, where they settled in Colonia Santa Clara in Entre Rios Province under the aegis of the Jewish Colonisation Association.

From an early age she came into contact with Argentine socialists, such as Nicolás Repetto. She trained to be a science teacher, and married the young socialist leader Antonio De Tomaso. The marriage later ended in divorce. Victoria, who had taken to writing, regularly contributed to La Nación and La Vanguardia; at the latter paper she ran the women's supplement.

Among her publications in the 1920s and 1930s were the following:

• Tierra Adentro, 1921.
• Pasto enterrao, 1925.
• “Juanita”, 1926.
• El Llanto de la Higuera, 1930.
• “Una lección interesante. Lo que pasa en China”, 1931.
• La mejor diplomacia. La montaña maravillosa. La ofrenda. 1933.

She taught in various schools and colleges for more than 30 years. Her second marriage was to Boris Fikh. They lived in the Parque Chacabuco neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, where she died in 1969.