José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (born 1911)

José María Arguedas

Peruvian writer (1911–1969)

José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in…