Alfredo Bryce Echenique

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Alfredo Bryce Echenique during a conference in Lima , his hometown, in 2005

Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born February 19, 1939 in Lima , Peru ) is a Peruvian writer , literary scholar and lawyer .

Life

Alfredo Bryce Echenique was born on February 19, 1939 in Lima to a wealthy Peruvian-English family. His parents were Elena Echenique Basombrío and Francisco Bryce Arróspide. His father was a banker and his great-grandfather, José Rufino Echenique Benavente, President of Peru in 1851.

In 1957 he began studying law and literature at the San Marcos National University in Lima. He obtained his lawyer title in 1963. The following year he completed his literary studies with a thesis on Ernest Hemingway .

In the same year he received a scholarship from the French government, which took him to Paris, where he began a doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in addition to diplomas in classical and modern French literature . In addition to teaching at various schools and universities in France, including Nanterre , Montpellier and Vincennes , he has also taught outside France, including at the universities of Yale , Austin and Puerto Rico .

In 1984 he moved to Madrid, where he worked as a freelance writer. Like some of his protagonists, Bryce Echenique lived far from his home for a long time. He only returned to Lima in 1999.

His first novel, “Un mundo para Julius” (1970) (German title “A World for Julius”, 2000) was an overwhelming success. The novel has been translated into numerous languages ​​and is now one of the classics of Latin American literature.

Bryce Echenique has published more than twenty books since then, including novels, short stories, autobiographies, and collections of articles. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is one of the best-known and most respected Latin American authors.

Awards

In 2002 he received the prestigious Italian literary prize Premio Grinzane Cavour for his work “La amigdalitis de Tarzan” (Eng. Title “Kiss me, you idiot”) . In the same year he was awarded the Planeta Prize , the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, for "El huerto de mi amada ." In 2012, Bryce Echenique received the FIL Prize .

Works

  • Huerto cerrado ( short stories, 1968)
  • Un mundo para Julius (Roman, 1970) German One World for Julius (2002), ISBN 3-518-41320-1
  • La felicidad ja ja ( short stories, 1974)
  • A vuelo de buen cubero (travel reports, among others, 1977)
  • Tantas Veces Pedro (novel, 1977)
  • La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña (novel, 1981)
  • El hombre que habla de Octavia Cádiz (novel, 1984)
  • Magdalena peruana y otros cuentos ( short stories, 1986)
  • Crónicas personales: edición aumentada de A vuelo de buen cubero (1987)
  • Goig (in collaboration with the Salvadoran writer Ana María Dueñas, 1987)
  • La última mudanza de Felipe Carrillo (novel, 1988)
  • Dos señoras conversan (Three stories, 1990), from which published A Frog in the Desert (2003), ISBN 3-518-22361-5
  • Permiso para vivir ("Antimemorias" I, 1993)
  • No me esperen en abril (novel, 1995)
  • A trancas y barrancas (1996)
  • Reo de nocturnidad (novel, 1997)
  • Guía triste de París ( short stories, 1999)
  • La amigdalitis de Tarzán (novel, 1999) German kiss me, you idiot (2000), ISBN 3-518-41180-2
  • Crónicas perdidas (2001)
  • El huerto de mi amada (novel, 2002)
  • doce cartas a dos amigos (2003)
  • Permiso para sentir ("Antimemorias" II, 2005)
  • Entre la soledad y el amor (2005)
  • Las obras infames de Pancho Marambio (novel, 2007)

supporting documents

  1. ↑ On the misfortune of being Peruvian, A conversation with the writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique, August 24, 2002, Neue Zürcher Zeitung ( Memento from April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru