Alonso Cueto

Alonso Cueto was born in Lima on 30 April 1954, the son of the philosopher Carlos Cueto Fernandini and of Lilly Caballero, who devoted herself to children's literature, and spent his early years in Paris and Washington. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 1977 with a thesis on the poetry of Emilio Adolfo Westphalen, and in 1984 defended a dissertation at the University of Texas on Onetti's stories. A journalist at El Comercio and a professor at the Catholic University, he joined the Peruvian Academy of the Language in 2009; he has received the Anna Seghers Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and the Herralde Prize.

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• NovelDeseo de nocheAlonso Cueto · 1993not translated into EnglishLiterature