Helena Araújo Ortiz (20 January 1934 – 2 February 2015) was a writer and an international professor of Latin American literature and women's studies.

[1] Helena was born on 20 January 1934 in Bogotá, D.C., Colombia, the second of four children to Alfonso Araújo Gaviria and Emma Ortiz Márquez.

She has published numerous literary criticism articles, several fiction books, multiple short stories and essays.

She is the recipient of literary prizes including the 1984 Platero Award by the Spanish Book Club of the United Nations in Geneva for her essay Post-nadaístas colombianas.

[5] In 2009 Araújo was honoured during the VI Gathering of Colombian Women Writers;[6][1] El Tiempo published a short memoir that was presented during the tribute.