His work has been translated into many languages. In 1994 he won the prestigious Juan Rulfo Prize for Literature.
On the 93rd anniversary of the birth of the great Peruvian writer Julio Ramon Ribeiro Google honors with today’s Doodle.
He is considered one of them greatest writers short stories of all times of Latin America.
He was born on this day in 1929 in Lima, Peru. The premature death of his father led his family to poverty. He studied at the Catholic University of Peru. He published his first short story, The Gray Life, in the magazine Correo Bolivariano in 1948. A few years later, the Institute of Spanish Culture gave him a scholarship to study journalism in Spain.
His most famous short story, The Featherless Buzzards (Los gallinazos sin plumas) was published in 1955. Critics raved about the way it depicted the harsh reality in the slums of Peru. He briefly studied French literature at the Sorbonne University and then dropped out. To continue his writing work, he worked as a hotel doorman and factory worker.
In 1958, Ribeiro returned to Peru as a professor at the National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga. Two years later, he completed his first novel Chronicle of San Gabriel. The book, which explores life in an isolated rural Peruvian community, immediately won a national award.
After the publication of his book, Ribeyro returned to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, translator and editor at Agence France Presse for the next 10 years.
After 1970 he became a UNESCO ambassador. Despite the diplomat’s heavy schedule, he continued to write. By the end of his career he had published eight volumes of short stories and several novels, essays and plays. His work has been translated into many languages. In 1994 he won the prestigious Juan Rulfo Prize for Literature.
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