CIRO ALEGRÍA

Ciro Alegría

He was born on November 4, 1909 at Quilca-Humachuco. He spent his childhood in large Marcabal, along the Marañon River Ranch.
He studied at the colegio nacional de San Juan, Trujillo and later philosophy and letters at the University of this city.

Militant of the APRA party, this political activity means it first jail and then exile in Chile. In 1941 hispanoamericana announced by a New York publishing wins literature Award with her novel 'the world is wide and others'. He leaves Chile and moved to the United States. Later it will reside in Puerto Rico and Cuba.

He is the author as well as two books of short stories: "The legend of the walnut tree" (1940) and "Duel of Knights" (1965). His novels: "The Golden snake" (1935), "Hungry dogs" (1939) and 'the world is wide and others' (1941), his masterpiece. His last duel of Knights work was published in 1963. Other stories: "The offering of stone" (1978), "The Sun of the Jaguars" (1979), "Seven tales quiromanticos" (1980). Belonging to the indigenous current call.
In Chile, he married his second aunt, Rosalía Amézquita Alegría, with whom he had two sons. Then espoused with Puerto Rican, Ligia Marchand and finally with the Dora Varona Cuban poetess with whom he had four children.

Ciro Alegría died on February 13, 1967 in Chosica in Chaclacayo because of a cardiac infarct.