Jesús Lara

Jesús Lara was born on 1 January 1898 in Muela, today Villa Rivero, near Cochabamba, and spoke Quechua before learning Spanish at school. He fought at the front during the Chaco War, from which he drew a diary published in 1937. He then devoted a large part of his work to Quechua literature, of which he published studies and anthologies. A communist activist, imprisoned several times, he was persecuted until the end. He died in Cochabamba on 6 September 1980.

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• NovelYanakunaJesús Lara · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature