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 when his plane, Avianca flight 011, 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 and Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia. See: Avianca Flight 011.

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)

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.

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