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Manuel Scorza (September 9, 1928November 27, 1983) was an important
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Life and career

Scorza was a member of a student group affiliated with the
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance The Peruvian Aprista Party ( es, Partido Aprista Peruano, PAP) () is a Peruvian political party and a member of the Socialist International. The party was founded as the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) by Víctor Raúl Haya de l ...
(APRA) called The Poets of the People (). He is best known for the series of five novels, known collectively as "The Silent War," that began with ''Redoble por Rancas'' (1970). All five have been translated into more than forty languages, including English. He died when his plane,
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, crashed on approach to Madrid's
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after striking a series of hilltops. The crash killed 181 passengers, including Mexican novelist and playwright
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Publications

* ''Las Imprecaciones'' (1955) * ''Los adioses'' (1959) * ''Desengaños del mago'' (1961) * ''Poesía amorosa'' (1963) * ''El vals de los reptiles'' (1970) * ''Poesía incompleta'' (1970) * "The Silent War" novels: *: ''Redoble por Rancas'' (1970) (''
Drums for Rancas ''Drums for Rancas'' ( es, Redoble por Rancas, links=no) is a 1970 novel by Peruvian author Manuel Scorza that represents the historical struggles of the inhabitants of the Department of Cerro de Pasco as they fight to recuperate control and own ...
'', translated by Edith Grossman, 1977) *: ''Historia de Garabombo el Invisible'' (1972) (''Garabombo, the Invisible'', translated by Anna-Marie Aldaz, 1994) *: ''El Jinete Insomne'' (1977) (''The Sleepless Rider'', translated by Anna-Marie Aldaz, 1996) *: ''Cantar de Agapito Robles'' (1977) (''The Ballad of Agapito Robles'', translated by Anna-Marie Aldaz, 1999) *: ''La Tumba del Relámpago'' (1979) (''Requiem for a Lightning Bolt'', translated by Anna-Marie Aldaz, 2000) * ''La danza inmóvil'' (1983)


See also

*
Peruvian literature The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ...
*
List of Peruvian writers This is a list of Peruvian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. * Martín Adán (1908–1985), poet * Ciro Alegría (1909–1967), indigenist novelist * Marie Arana (born 1949), Peruvian-Amer ...
* Guillermo Carnero Hoke, another member of Los Poetas Del Pueblo


References

* Hernández, Consuelo. "Crónica, historiografía e imaginación en las novelas de Manuel Scorza." ''Beyond Indigenous Voices''. Laila/Alila 11th International Symposium on Latin American Indian literatures. Edited by Mary H. Preuss. Pennsylvania State University. 1996. pp. 143–150.


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