Lucía Gevert Parada (born 1932) is a Chilean journalist, writer, editor, and former diplomat to West Germany during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
[3][4] She was also a participant in the founding of Televisión Nacional de Chile and the children's literature magazine Colibrí.
[2] During her professional career she has received several honors for her journalistic work, including the Lenka Franulic Award in 1970[1][6] and the John Reitemeyer Prize for scientific journalism from the Inter American Press Association.
[8] Gevert's first publication in the narrative genre was El puma in 1969, which received mixed reviews.
[14] In 2002, IBBY Chile selected three of her stories from El gatito que no sabía ronronear y otros cuentos as the best of 2001.