Manuel Scorza

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Manuel Scorza (September 7, 1928 - November 27, 1983) was an important Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría. He was born in Lima.

He died in plane crash coming from Frankfurt on Aviancan flight from Paris to Barajas Airport going to Bogota witch crashed in Madrid killing 181 passengers as Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama and Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia in Madrid.

[edit] Publications

• Las Imprecaciones (1955)

• Los adioses (1959)

• Desengaños del mago (1961)

• Poesía amorosa (1963)

• Redoble por Rancas (1970)

• El vals de los reptiles (1970)

• Poesía incompleta (1970)

• Historia de Garabombo el Invisible, o, Garabombo, el invisible (1972)

• El Jinete Insomne (1977)

• Cantar de Agapito Robles (1977)

• La Tumba del Relámpago (1979)

• La danza inmóvil (1983)

[edit] 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.