Manuel Scorza
Manuel Scorza (born September 7, 1928 in Lima , † November 27, 1983 in Madrid ) was a Peruvian writer .
After attending the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado , he studied from 1945 at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He then devoted himself to political activism; he took part in guerrilla fighting in Chile, where he was arrested and expelled in 1949. In the same year he joined a resistance group against the military dictatorship Manuel Odrías .
In 1955 he published his first volume of poetry, Las Imprecaciones . Others followed before he published his first novel in 1970 with the drum roll for Rancas . Like his four subsequent novels, with which he comprises a cycle, this one was written in political exile in France and deals with the life of indigenous peoples. From 1977 he was a professor of Latin American literature in Paris.
He died on November 27, 1983 on board Avianca flight 011 , which crashed near Madrid-Barajas airport . The authors Jorge Ibargüengoitia , Marta Traba and Ángel Rama also died in this accident .
Works
- Las Imprecaciones (Poetry), 1955
- Los adioses , 1959
- Desengaños del mago , 1961
- Poesía amorosa (Poetry), 1963
- Redoble por Rancas (Roman), 1970, German drum roll for Rancas , 1975
- El vals de los reptiles , 1970
- Poesía incompleta , 1970
- Historia de Garabombo el Invisible, o, Garabombo, el invisible (Roman), 1972, German Garabombo, the invisible , 1977
- El jinete insomne (novel), 1977, German The Sleepless Rider , 1981
- Cantar de Agapito Robles (novel), 1977, German The song of Agapito Robles , 1984
- La Tumba del Relámpago (novel), 1979
- La danza inmóvil (novel), 1983
Web links
- Literature by and about Manuel Scorza in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Manuel Scorza in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Biography at epdlp.com (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.marcelfrank.de/lima/literatur/hisplit.htm
- ↑ http://www.bridica.com/eb/article-9066339/Manuel-Scorza
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Ertler: Small history of the Latin American novel . Narr, 2002, ISBN 3823349910 , p. 211.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scorza, Manuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1983 |
| Place of death | Madrid |