Ana Mercedes Pérez


Ana Mercedes Pérez was a Venezuelan poet, writer, translator, journalist and diplomat.

Biography

She was the daughter of the Laran jurist and diplomat, José Eugenio Pérez, who served as the Venezuelan consul general in London, and as President of the House of Deputies.
Her poetry was characterized as being very feminine, punctuated with notes of rebellion and angst. Along with her journalist contemporaries such as Juana de Ávila, Teresa Troconis, Peregrino Pérez, Isabel Jimenez Arráiz de Díaz, Pérez was a defender of Ligia Parra Jahn in the Caracas newspaper.

Selected works