Author · Bolivia
Óscar Cerruto
Died in 1981
Óscar Cerruto was born in La Paz on 13 June 1912, the son of Andrés Cerruto Durand and a British pianist, Lelia Maggie Collier, who taught him to read. He published his first political articles at fourteen, then in 1931 joined the Bolivian consulate in Arica. Cultural attaché in Argentina from 1942 to 1946, he then directed two daily newspapers in La Paz, El Diario and then Última Hora, and founded his country's diplomatic academy. A member of the Bolivian Academy of the Language, he died in his native city on 10 April 1981.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelAluvión de fuegoÓscar Cerruto · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature