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Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994), short story writer; Isabel Sabogal (born 1958), novelist, poet and translator; Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924–1964), essayist and poet; Claudia Salazar Jiménez (born 1976) writer, editor and academic; José Santos Chocano (1875–1934), poet; Manuel Scorza (1928–1983), novelist and poet; Iván Thays ...
José María Arguedas. José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist.Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language.
The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ethnic groups that existed in the area during the prehispanic period, such as the Quechua, the Aymara and the Chanka South American native groups.
The Storyteller (Spanish: El Hablador) is a novel by Peruvian author and Literature Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The story tells of Saúl Zuratas, a university student who leaves civilization and becomes a "storyteller" for the Machiguenga Native Americans. The novel thematizes the Westernization of indigenous peoples through missions ...
Co-organizer of the III Peruvian Women Writers' Meeting, held in September 2003 in Cusco. Co-organizer of the Seminar La mujer y la Literatura (Woman and Literature), held in March 2004 in Cusco. Co-organizer of the round table on Czeslaw Milosz , held in November 2011 in Lima, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth.
The Blue Hour (La Hora Azul) is a 2005 novel by Peruvian novelist Alonso Cueto. [1] It won the Premio Herralde de Novela for Spanish-language novels in 2006. The English translation, by Frank Wynne, was published in 2012, and won the 2013 Premio Valle-Inclán; it was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in the same year.
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The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros, literally "The City and the Dogs") is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima , which he attended as a teenager.