The novelist Clorinda Matto died at the age of 57. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Peruvian writer, journalist, and advocate for women and indigenous peoples. Her controversial, politically-themed novels include Aves Sin Nido, Herencia, and Indole.
Her husband died in 1881, and she was left bankrupt. She later supported herself by working as a newspaper editor.