Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zúñiga was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary and aphorism. In the year of his death, he was awarded the Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe. His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English.
The characters in his stories, often autobiographical and usually written in simple but ironic language, tend to end up with their hopes cruelly dashed. But despite its apparent pessimism, Ribeyro's work is often comic, its humor springing from both the author's sense of irony and the accidents that befall his protagonists. The collective work of his short stories is published under the title La palabr
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
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Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
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He was born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton in the Sussex village of Hassocks, near Brighton, to writer parents. Due to his father's alcoholism and financial ineptitude, the family spent much of Hamilton's childhood living in boarding houses in Chiswick and Hove. His education was patchy, and ended just after his fifteenth birthday when his mother withdrew him from Westminster School.
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Ha recibido, entre otros premios, el “José María Arguedas” de cuento (1978), el “José María Eguren” de poesía (1980), el Premio Copé (1983), el Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (1985), el Premio Latinoamericano de Cuento (CICLA 87), el Premio Nacional de Educación (1995), el Premio Nacional de Novela “Federico Villarreal” (1996) y el Premio Internacional de Cuentos “Juan Rulfo” (2002).
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