Ciro Alegría Bazán was a Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

vian journalist

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, politician

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, and novelist.
Born in Huamachuco District

Huamachuco District

Huamachuco District is one of the districts of the Sánchez Carrión province located in La Libertad Region in Peru.-History:Before the Spanish invasion, this district used to be the land of the ancient wachemines and the dominion of the Huamachucos, forgers of culture, of language and of tradition,...

, he exposed the problematic of the native Peruvians

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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, learning about their way of life. This understanding of how they were oppressed was the focus for his novels. He attended classes at the University of Trujillo, and worked briefly as a journalist for the newspaper El Norte.

In 1930 Alegría joined the Aprista movement

American Popular Revolutionary Alliance

The Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana is a centre-left Peruvian political party.At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic...

, dedicated to social reform as well as improving the welfare of native Peruvians.