10 books by Peruvian authors that you should read
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And it is that literary transports the reader to other realities, places or moments in history. A book is a journey without movement. By reading The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien., you become Frodo Bolson's traveling companion, and you witness how this hobbit does everything possible to fulfill his mission: destroy the One Ring. In The Principito by Antoine De Saint Exupéry, you are transported to the Sahara with the pilot who, at the hand of his prince, reflects on nature and human life. In The Anne Frank Diary, you are a silent witness to all the adventures that this little girl had to go through with her family during the Second World War.
Peruvian authors also have their magic. There are publications that not only talk about the history and customs of this South American country, but also reflect the daily life itself. Thus, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who in La ciudad y Los Perros transports us to the interior of the Leoncio Prado military school to show the social prejudices and racism that lived in that institution. While Julio Ramón Ribeyro in Los gallinazos sin Plumas invites us to learn about the history of the brothers Enrique and Efraín, who are exploited by their grandfather. But there are also books about love and hope, one of those that make us believe in the goodness of the world. One of them is Algún día te mostraré el desierto of Renato Cisneros. Here the journalist tells us how his relationship with Valeria –his current wife- began and the entire process prior to the arrival of Julieta, his only daughter.
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Arequipa's Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.
Next, we quote some of the books by Peruvian authors that you have to read:
Tradiciones Peruanas by Ricardo Palma
It is one of the most important books in Peruvian culture. This series of short stories were published, in its first edition, in 1872. Using a typical language of the time with various doses of humor, romanticism and mischief, Palma narrates the main historical events that developed in Peru.
El sexto by José María Arguedas
Published in 1961, it is the fourth novel by Arguedas and narrates the prison experience that the writer lived during his eleven-month confinement between 1937 and 1938 in one of the best-known prisons in Lima. In this book, the also author of Los ríos profundos, narrates the prison horror he witnessed, having pain, death, injustice and anguish as its main nuances.
Conversación en la catedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
“No other novel has given me so much work; therefore, if I had to save just one of the ones I have written from fire, I would save this one”, this is how Vargas Llosa defines this book published in 1969. This novel shows the corruption, political repression and frustration of Peruvian society who lived during the government of Manuel A. Odría.
La ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa
Continuing with the writer from Arequipa, the first novel he published arrives (1963). This work - staged at the Leoncio Prado military school - narrates the experiences of a group of students from different races and social classes who configure through their actions a metaphor for the diversity and social conflicts that characterize Peru at the time. Read More…
