WRITER

José María Arguedas

1911 - 1969

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José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José María Arguedas has received more than 182,776 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). José María Arguedas is the 3,049th most popular writer (down from 2,814th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Peru (down from 46th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Peruvian Writer.

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  • 180k

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  • 52.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

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  • 4.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

El sexto
1969
Los ríos profundos
Chronology
1958
Yawar fiesta
Ficción, Fiction, Historia
1973
Amor mundo y todos los cuentos de José María Arguedas
1960
Los ríos profundos
Chronology, Modern fiction, History
1958
Los ríos profundos
Chronology, Modern fiction, History
1958
Los ríos profundos
Chronology, South america, fiction, Fiction, general
1958
Yawar fiesta
Fiction, History, Quechua Indians
1958
Amor mundo y todos los cuentos de José María Arguedas
1960
El sexto
1969
Los ríos profundos
1972
Los ríos profundos
Chronology, Modern fiction, History
1958
Yawar fiesta
Fiction, History, Quechua Indians
1958
El sexto
1969
Los ríos profundos
1972
Amor mundo y todos los cuentos de José María Arguedas
1960
Los ríos profundos
Chronology, South america, fiction, Fiction, general
1958

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José María Arguedas ranks 3,049 out of 7,302. Before him are Dmitry Pisarev, Theodor Kallifatides, Charles Blanc, Yury Vlasov, Hamnet Shakespeare, and Jens Fink-Jensen. After him are Azalais de Porcairagues, Nikolay Nosov, Tarafa, Joseph Joffo, Ibn Zaydún, and Gregory Corso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, José María Arguedas ranks 151. Before him are E. F. Schumacher, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Ljubiša Broćić, Hans von Ohain, Nello Pagani, and Abderrahmane Farès. After him are Louis Dumont, Arkady Raikin, Hume Cronyn, Kukrit Pramoj, Floyd Council, and Allan Pettersson. Among people deceased in 1969, José María Arguedas ranks 112. Before him are Josef Beran, Angelina Beloff, Ben Shahn, Abdirashid Shermarke, Jan Zajíc, and Iskander Mirza. After him are Gerhard Mitter, Madhubala, Serge Poliakoff, Leopold von Wiese, Ilse Steppat, and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, José María Arguedas ranks 52 out of 287. Before him are Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (1943), Valentín Paniagua (1936), Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836), Juliane Koepcke (1954), Pedro Barreto (1944), and Alex Olmedo (1936). After him are Agustín Gamarra (1785), Ramón Castilla (1797), Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro (1889), Miguel Grau Seminario (1834), Ollanta Humala (1962), and Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, José María Arguedas ranks 8. Before him are Isabel Allende (1942), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), and José Carlos Mariátegui (1894). After him are Ricardo Palma (1833), Ciro Alegría (1909), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), Alfredo Bryce (1939), Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854), and José Santos Chocano (1875).

Peruvian born Writers

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