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José María Arguedas

1911 - 1969

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José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) 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 family approved by his father. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. José María Arguedas is the 2,700th most popular writer (up from 3,049th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Peru (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Peruvian Writer.

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Among writers, José María Arguedas ranks 2,700 out of 7,302. Before him are Patrick Pearse, Sāyaṇa, Valentin Kataev, Sima Tan, Peter Bichsel, and Varian Fry. After him are Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Johann Froben, Józef Czapski, Hella Haasse, Hildebert, and Pierre Grimal.

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Among people born in 1911, José María Arguedas ranks 138. Before him are Birger Ruud, Otto Baum, Leopold Kielholz, Carlos Marighella, David Ogilvy, and Sidney Wood. After him are Mikhail Yangel, Merle Oberon, Mstislav Keldysh, Aliya bint Ali, Maclyn McCarty, and William T. Stearn. Among people deceased in 1969, José María Arguedas ranks 100. Before him are André Salmon, Georges Catroux, Willy Mairesse, John Wyndham, Eduardo Mondlane, and Carlos Marighella. After him are Johannes Dieckmann, Nicolas Grunitzky, Maureen Connolly, Leonard Woolf, Volmari Iso-Hollo, and Angelina Beloff.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, José María Arguedas ranks 50 out of 287. Before him are Ollanta Humala (1962), Valentín Paniagua (1936), Francisco Sagasti (1944), Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921), Claudio Pizarro (1978), and Manuel A. Odría (1896). After him are Agustín Gamarra (1785), Pedro Barreto (1944), Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889), Óscar R. Benavides (1876), Boris Vallejo (1941), and Augusto B. Leguía (1863).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, José María Arguedas ranks 8. Before him are Isabel Allende (1942), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), and José Carlos Mariátegui (1894). After him are Ciro Alegría (1909), Ricardo Palma (1833), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854), José Santos Chocano (1875), and Alfredo Bryce (1939).

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