Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Alfredo Bryce Echenique was born in Lima on 19 February 1939, into a family of bankers, a great-grandson of President José Rufino Echenique. A graduate in law and letters of San Marcos, he left for Paris in 1964, taught at Nanterre, at the Sorbonne and then at Montpellier, settled in Spain in 1984 and returned to Peru in 1999. Winner of the Premio Planeta in 2002 and of the FIL Prize in Guadalajara in 2012, he refused the Order of the Sun. Sanctioned in 2009 by Indecopi for plagiarism of articles, which he always contested, he died in Lima on 10 March 2026, aged eighty-seven.

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