Ciro Alegría

Ciro Alegría Bazán was born on 4 November 1909, according to the civil register, in the Huamachuco region, in the north of the Peruvian Andes, into a family of landowners, and briefly had César Vallejo as his teacher at the San Juan school in Trujillo. An Aprista activist, he was imprisoned from December 1931 until the amnesty of October 1933, then deported to Chile in 1934; he then lived in the United States, Puerto Rico and Cuba before returning to Peru. A deputy for Lima from 1963, he presided over the National Association of Writers and Artists in 1966, and died near Lima on 17 February 1967.

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• NovelBroad and Alien Is the WorldEl mundo es ancho y ajenoCiro Alegría · 1941Literature