Manuel Scorza was an important 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 novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría. He was born in Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

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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, Avianca Flight 011

Avianca Flight 011

Avianca Flight 011, registration HK-2910 , was a Boeing 747-283B on an international scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt via Paris, Madrid, and Caracas to Bogotá....

, crashed on approach to Madrid's Barajas Airport after striking a series of hilltops. The crash killed 181 passengers, including Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama

Ángel Rama

Ángel Rama was a Uruguayan writer, academic, and literary critic, known for his work on modernismo and for his theorization of the concept of "transculturation."-Biography:...

 and Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón , was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas , Dos Crimenes , and Los Relámpagos de Agosto Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (Guanajuato, Mexico, January 22, 1928 -...

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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, 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)

External links

• Biography
• "Sobre la irrealidad total, he puesto la realidad absoluta" (Interview, 1979)
• David O. Wise, "Writing for Fewer and Fewer: Peruvian Fiction 1979-1980". Latin American Research Review 18.1 (1983): 189-200.