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Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Peruvian novelist
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Alfredo Marcelo Bryce Echenique
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February 19, 1939, Lima, Peru (age 85)

Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born February 19, 1939, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose fictional works are filled with wry humour that blends intimacy and pathos. Bryce Echenique was born into a wealthy family. His narratives often portray Lima’s upper class using colloquial speech and a sophisticated narrative technique that intermingles the scholarly and the popular. His first novel, Un mundo para Julius (1970; A World for Julius), was acclaimed by critics and the public alike and won the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1972. Among his best-known novels were Tantas veces Pedro (1977; “So Many ...(100 of 262 words)

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