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(Wednesday)
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Languages
Quechua, Spanish
Spouses
Celia Bustamante (1939-1967), Sybila Arredondo (1967-1969)
Education
National University of San Marcos
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♑ Capricorn
Chinese Zodiac
猪 Pig
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José María Arguedas: Peruvian writer (1911–1969).
Born in Andahuaylas (died at age 58).
Studied at National University of San Marcos.
Biography
José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father. Arguedas wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.
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José María Arguedas was born on and passed away on at the age of 58.
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José María Arguedas was born in Andahuaylas.
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