Miluska Benavides (born 1986) is a Peruvian writer and translator. She was born in

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. She has a doctorate in

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from the

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and currently teaches at the

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. She is known for her prose works, among them: * ''Naturaleza de la prosa de

José María Eguren José María Eguren Rodríguez (July 7, 1874, Lima – April 19, 1942, Lima) was a Peruvian writer. Although principally known for his poetry, Eguren was also a journalist, painter, photographer and even an inventor. Very much a post-modernist w ...

'' (essay, Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 2017) * ''La caza espiritual'' (short stories, Celacanto, 2015). In 2012, she also translated Arthur Rimbaud’s poetical work '' A Season in Hell''. Her next book is the novel ''Hechos''. In 2021, she was named by '' Granta'' magazine as one of the best young writers in the Spanish language.

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