Which writer was born first, Marguerite Yourcenar or Rosario Castellanos?
Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (] ; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the "Prix Femina" and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.
Isabel de Villena Isabel de Villena (1430 Valencia, Spain – 1490 Valencia, Spain) was the illegitimate child of Enrique de Villena an unknown noblewoman who rose to become the abbess of the Real Monasterio de la Trinidad of Valencia. As the first major female writer of a work done in the Catalan language, she composed a number of religious treaties. Her most famous work was her "Vita Christi" (Christ's Life). She was also a proto-feminist who tried to change the negative image of women at the time through her writing.