List of Famous people with last name Arguedas

José María Arguedas

José María Arguedas Altamirano
First Name José
Last Name Arguedas
Born on January 18, 1911
Died on November 28, 1969 (aged 58)
Born in Peru, Apurímac

José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of Spanish descent, with a rare fluency in the native Quechua language, gained by living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11 - first in the indigenous servant quarters of his step-mother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an indigenous family approved by his father - who wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.

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