Víctor Montoya

Víctor Montoya was born in La Paz on 21 June 1958 and grew up in the mining towns of Siglo XX and Llallagua, north of Potosí; he was nine at the time of the Saint John's Day massacre, in 1967. A school student leader during the 1976 strike, he was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned under the dictatorship, then released in 1977 through an Amnesty International campaign and taken in by Sweden. A graduate of the Stockholm institute of education, he teaches Quechua there, runs literature workshops and edits the magazines PuertAbierta and Contraluz.

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• NarrativeHuelga y represiónVíctor Montoya · 1979not translated into EnglishLiterature