Fany Puyesky Mitnik (23 July 1939[1] – 15 October 2010) was a lawyer, writer, and dramatist known as "the first feminist" of Uruguay.
In 1986 she published Mujeres al poder, and in 2006 Diario de una diosa, which was also adapted for the theater.
In 1984 she participated in the National Programmatic Agreement (Concertación Nacional Programática; CONAPRO) Status of Women Working Group, alongside leaders such as Marta Canessa and Ana Lía Piñeyrúa.
[7] In 1997 Puyesky produced and premiered the work Berenice's Windows, awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
In 2004, she obtained a master's degree in gender, society, and public policies from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales; FLACSO), working as an independent regional consultant for equity policies in different organizations throughout the Americas.