Odile Baron Supervielle

Odile Baron Supervielle (May 1, 1915 – October 25, 2016) was an Uruguayan-born Argentine writer and journalist.

A pioneer of women journalists in Argentina, she was director of the literary supplement of the newspaper La Nación.

She was the fourth of the six children of the French banker Etienne Baron Lamothe and the Uruguayan Ana Supervielle Munyo.

She interviewed personalities of Argentine and European culture and science, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Pablo Neruda, André Malraux, Manuel Mujica Lainez, Eduardo Mallea, Ernesto Sabato, Francois Truffaut, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Leopoldo Marechal, Jean Hamburger, Susan Sontag, Françoise Héritier, Abate Pierre, María Rosa Gallo, Alberto Girri, Juan Carlos Paz, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Semprún, Astor Piazzolla, Miguel Ocampo, Jorge de la Vega, Sebastian Spreng, Jean-Gilles de Gènes, and Salvador Dalí.

[11] In 1999, Baron Supervielle was awarded the Enrique Fernández Latour Prize for Argentine-French friendship in criticism and dissemination.