Macedonio Villafán Broncano

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Macedonio Villafán Broncano (* 1949 in Taricá , Huaraz Province , Ancash Region , Peru ) is a Peruvian writer who writes in Spanish and Ancash Quechua . He is one of the very few Quechua authors who write in a variant of the Waywash -Quechua.

Life

Macedonio Villafán went to primary schools in Taricá and Huaraz , where he also attended the Colegio. He studied literature at the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and did both his master's and doctoral theses at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima . He is Professor of Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo .

In 1988 he published Apu Kolkijirka , a story (willakuy) with seven chapters entirely in Ancash-Quechua by Huaylas, in which the mountain ( Apu ) Kolkijirka ( Qullqihirka , Silberberg) tells the story of the Quechua village Cutacancha as a first-person narrator . Together with Porfirio Meneses Lazón he received the 1997 Quechua Literature Prize from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima. The second edition of this book from 1998 also contains seven short stories (ichik kwentukuna) .

In 1999 his book Los hijos de Hilario was published with seven stories in Spanish, in which he writes about the life of the people in the Callejón de Huaylas today. Villafán is also the author of poems for children (Capulí) and editor of an anthology of poems from Ancash A mar y nieve and co-editor of Huandoy y Huascarán with narratives from Ancash.

Works

Tales in Spanish

  • 1999: Los hijos de Hilario

Short stories and short stories in Quechua

  • 1988: Apu Kolkijirka
  • 1998: Apu Kolkijirka y siete relatos cortos

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personal data
SURNAME Villafán Broncano, Macedonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Villafán, Macedonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Taricá , Huaraz Province , Ancash Region , Peru