Angélica Gorodischer (28 July 1928 – 5 February 2022) was an Argentine writer whose short stories and novels belong to a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and crime.

A collection of short stories, it details the history of a vast imaginary empire through tales of fantasy, fable, and allegory.

Its English translation by notable United States speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin was published by Small Beer Press in 2003.

She was a science fiction author noted for her work on the inequality of power between men and women.

Her detective character is a grand dame who reluctantly and haphazardly engages in the world of international intrigue, making her debut in her 1985 novella entitled Floreros de alabastro, alfombras de Bokhara, which won the Emecé Literary Prize (1984–85) by unanimous decision.