Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Julio Ramón Ribeyro was born in Lima on 31 August 1929, the eldest of four children of a middle-class family whose earlier generations had belonged to high society. He studied literature and law at the Catholic University, left in 1952 for Madrid on a journalism scholarship, then lived in Europe on odd jobs, in Paris, Munich and Antwerp. Having returned to teach in Ayacucho, he went back to Paris in 1960, worked about ten years at Agence France-Presse, then represented Peru at UNESCO, as ambassador from 1986 to 1990. He received the Juan Rulfo Prize a few days before his death, on 4 December 1994.

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• Short storiesLos gallinazos sin plumasJulio Ramón Ribeyro · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature