José María Arguedas

José María Arguedas was born on 18 January 1911 in Andahuaylas, in the southern Andes. Orphaned of his mother at an early age, he was kept at a distance by his stepmother and grew up among the Indian servants, who taught him Quechua and their customs. A student of letters at San Marcos, he became an ethnologist and taught, among other places, at the Agrarian University of La Molina, translated Quechua songs and tales, headed the House of Culture and then the National Museum of History, and in 1968 received the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Prize. He took his own life and died in Lima on 2 December 1969.

In the catalogue 2

• Short storiesAguaJosé María Arguedas · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature
• NovelDeep RiversLos ríos profundosJosé María Arguedas · 1958Literature