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100 years ago Altamirano José María Arguedas was born in Andahuaylas, Apurimac. Below I leave an adaptation of the biography of our Peruvian writer who appears in the book "Big builders of Peru", Lexus Editores.

ARGUEDAS ALTAMIRANO, José María (1911-1969)
The distinguished writer José María Arguedas Altamirano was born on January 18, 1911 in the city of Andahuaylas, Apurimac department. His father was a landowner in the region, having been widowed mother of the future writer, contract a second marriage with a rich landowner, a native of San Juan de Lucanas. Arguedas's childhood was marked by the difficult relationship he had with his stepmother. She felt for her stepson a clear contempt, and once sent him to live with the servants of the estate. They lovingly nursed and provided it with its character, based on love for nature.

published in 1935 Water, his first book of short stories. Founded in 1936 with Augusto Tamayo Vargas, Alberto Tauro del Pino and others, the magazine Word, in whose pages reflected the ideology espoused by José Carlos Mariategui. In 1937 he was imprisoned in "The Sixth" because of their involvement in anti-fascist march that took place in college, earning his freedom in 1939.

Before the end of 1941, Yawar Fiesta Arguedas published his first novel. In 1954 he published the novella Diamonds and flints, his third work. The writer makes his first trip to Europe, a grant from UNESCO, to carry out various studies, both in Spain and France. During the time he spent in Spain, Arguedas did research for his doctoral thesis Communities of Spain in Peru . In 1958 he published Deep Rivers, essentially autobiographical novel, for which he receives in the course of 1960, the award "Ricardo Palma". The following year he published The Sixth . With this novel Arguedas wins in 1962, and for the second time the award "Ricardo Palma".

In 1964 he published his most ambitious work: All blood, a novel of great narrative consistency, in which the writer wants to show the full range of human types that make up Peru.

also wrote world Love (1967), Fox above and below the fox (posthumous) Runa yupay (1939), Myths, Legends and Peruvian (Anthology - with Francisco Izquierdo, 1947), Songs and stories of the Quechua people (1949), Quechua Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1964), Katatay (1972) and Formation of a national American Indian culture (Mexico, 1989).

November 28, 1969, fired a shot in the head, because of which he died, after spending five days in painful agony. The day of his funeral, as the writer had asked in his diary, an Indian played the violin to his coffin, then delivered a short speech, in words passed the feeling of the indigenous people, who deeply regretted his departure.

Adapted from the Bridge July Teodori
Great Builders of Peru