Milagros Socorro

(Venezuela, 1960), winner of the Oxfam Novib PEN Award 2018, is a journalist, writer and university professor holding degrees in Social Communication and Latin American literature. As a journalist, Socorro worked for national and regional media outlets, including the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Colombian magazine Revista Gato Pardo, Claro! Magazine, El Nacional, Climax magazine, and has served as the general editor of Código Venezuela a news portal. Over the course of her career, she has received a number of awards including the Miguel Otero prize for Best Journalist for the daily El Nacional in 2004. She has been described as ‘a guide to her readers in matters of defence of democracy, freedom of expression and information, fight against corruption and authoritarianism.’ Additionally, Socorro has written a variety of novels, short stories and testimonials, among them, El Abrazo de tamarindo (fiction, 2008); Vacas en las Nubes (youth literature, 2008) and Actos de Salvajismo (short stories, 1999).