Enrique López Albújar

Enrique López Albújar was born on 23 November 1872 on the hacienda of Pátapo, near Chiclayo, where his father worked, and spent his childhood in Piura and Morropón; he always considered himself a native of Piura. Educated at the college of Guadalupe, a law graduate of San Marcos in 1900, he taught history in Piura and directed several newspapers, including La Prensa in 1916. A judge in Huánuco from 1917 to 1923, then in Piura, he afterwards sat on the superior courts of Lambayeque and Tacna until his retirement in 1947. He died in Lima on 6 March 1966, at the age of ninety-three.

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• Short storiesCuentos andinosEnrique López Albújar · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature