Porfirio Meneses Lazón

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Francisco Porfirio Meneses Lazón (born October 30, 1915 in Huanta , Ayacucho region , Peru , † May 10, 2009 in Lima ) was a Peruvian writer who wrote in Spanish and Chanka-Quechua , and translator. Because of its Quechua stories, for which he received a literary prize in 1998, he is considered one of the most important Quechua writers and representatives of the literary movement of Indigenismo .

Life

Porfirio Meneses grew up in Huanta and moved to Lima with his mother in 1922 after his parents separated. There he was one of the founders of the APRA youth organization Federación Aprista Juvenil in 1934 . In 1935 he returned to Huanta, where he lived until 1940.

From 1941 studied Porfirio Meneses at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos literature, law, business and education, but he did not graduate long time and his only 1979 Licentiate (Licenciatura) in literature.

He wrote a number of narratives in Spanish dealing with Andean culture, including Cholerias (1946), Campos Marchitos (1948), El Hombrecillo Oscuro y otros cuentos (1954), Cuentos Peruanos , Cholerias 2 , Huanta en la Cultura (1974 ) and Solo un camino tiene el río (1975) and in 1954 the play La Princesa del mar . He also wrote poetry in Quechua, of which his volume of poetry Suyaypa llaqtan (Land of Hope) was published in 1988 and Yapa tinkunakuy (The Reunion), a volume with 30 sonnets, appeared in 2009 . He also translated César Vallejo's volume of poems Los heraldos negros ( Yana kachapurikuna , 1997) and the short story Trilce (2009) into Quechua. In an anthology, Achikyay willaykuna (Tales of Dawn, 1998), he edited six Quechua short stories about life in Huanta during his childhood. These short stories, for which he received the Quechua Literature Prize, were also published in a French translation by César Itier in 2001.

family

Porfirio Meneses was married to María Jesús Meneses Morales (1917-2009).

Works

Tales in Spanish

  • 1946: cholerias .
  • 1948: Campos Marchitos .
  • 1954: El Hombrecillo Oscuro y otros cuentos .
  • 1974: Cuentos Peruanos .
  • 1974: Cholerias 2 .
  • 1974: Huanta en la Cultura .
  • 1975: Sólo un camino tiene el río . Lima, Editorial Universo.

Poems in Quechua

  • 1988: Suyaypa llaqtan . Lima, Mosca Azul Editores.
  • 2009: Yapa tinkunakuy [El reencuentro]. 30 sonetos quechua con traducción conceptual española. Asamblea Nacional de Rectores.

Quechua stories

  • 1998: Achikyay willaykuna . Biblioteca de Cultura Quechua Contemporánea n ° 4. Lima, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal.

Literary translations into Quechua

  • César Vallejo , 1997: Yana kachapurikuna [Los heraldos negros]. Biblioteca de Cultura Quechua Contemporánea n ° 1. Lima, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal.
  • César Vallejo, 2008: Trilce . Universidad Ricardo Palma, Editorial Universitaria.

literature

  • Dimas Arrieta Espinoza: Porfirio Meneses ha muerto. La obra de un maestro . Diario El Peruano, 10 de agosto 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Meneses Lazón, Porfirio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meneses Lazón, Francisco Porfirio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Huanta , Ayacucho Region , Peru
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2009
Place of death Lima