José María Arguedas
Peruvian novelist and poet
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... Wikipedia
Born: January 18, 1911, Andahuaylas, Peru
Died: December 2, 1969 (age 58 years), Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital, Jesús María, Peru
Children: Vilma Victoria Arguedas Ponce
Spouse: Sybila Arredondo de Arguedas (m. 1967–1969) and Celia Bustamante Vernal (m. 1939–1965)
Siblings: Nelly Arguedas
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