On the occasion of the centenary of José María Arguedas's birth, various activities were planned in honor of the indigenist novelist
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José María Arguedas
José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas's living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous…
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culture · Peruvian writer (1911–1969) · anthropologist · poet · novelist · translator · ethnologist · short story writer · indigenist · essayist · university teacher · journalist · also José María Arguedas, Jose Maria Arguedas, José María Arguedas Altamirano, Arguedas
Born 18 January 1911 · Died 2 December 1969 · Q266816
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President Alan García declared 2011 as the "Year of the Centenary of Machu Picchu for the World," also commemorating the centenary of the rediscovery of the Inca citadel in 2011
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1969· 2 entries
Died 1969-12-02.
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Arguedas locked himself in one of the university bathrooms and shot himself at the National Agrarian University in La Molina, leaving behind very specific instructions for his funeral, a diary depicting his depression, a
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1968· 1 entry
Arguedas was awarded the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega literary prize, where he gave his famous speech No soy un aculturado (I am not an acculturated man), which has been described by academic sources as a "powerful" embrac
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1966· 1 entry
Leading him to a first suicide attempt by overdose on April 11 of that year
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1941· 1 entry
Yawar Fiesta ("Blood Fest"), he had begun to explore the theme that would interest him for the rest of his career: the clash between Western "civilization" and the Indigenous "traditional" way of life
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-01-18.
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