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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 ...
Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes) is a 1993 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. [1] [2] Civil Guard member Corporal Lituma has been transferred to the rural mountain town of Naccos, where he investigates the disappearances of three men, while under the constant threat of Senderista guerrilla attacks.
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.
Isaac Goldemberg (born 1945) is a Peruvian-American author, founder of the Latin American Writers Institute, Brújula/Compass, and "Hostos Review", and a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College. [1] Goldemberg was born in Peru, and immigrated to New York City, where he currently lives, in 1964
This time made a definite impression on him and which can be seen in his first novel, The Fury of Achilles (2001) (La furia de Aquiles). It tells the story of four young people traveling from a small town to Lima to study, start a career and live together, and where they experience enmity, jealousy, insecurity and chaos of a big city.