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Xavier Abril de Vivero, was a Peruvian poet and essayist who devoted time studying the poetry of César Vallejo

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Martín Adán, pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet whose body of work is notable for its hermeticism and metaphysical depth.

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Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia is a Peruvian lawyer, writer and diplomat. On 18 November 2020, Bermúdez became the Prime Minister of Peru. Previously, she held posts in the United States Agency for International Development and worked during the cabinets of President Alejandro Toledo and Prime Minister Beatriz Merino.

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Alfredo Bryce Echenique is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written numerous books and short stories.

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José Santos Chocano Gastañodi, more commonly known by his pseudonym "El Cantor de América", was a Peruvian poet, writer and diplomat, whose work was widely praised across Europe and Latin America. Considered by many to be one of the most important Spanish-American poets, his poetry of grandiloquent tone was very sonorous and full of color.

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Alonso Cueto Caballero is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist.

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José María Eguren Rodríguez was a Peruvian writer. Although principally known for his poetry, Eguren was also a journalist, painter, photographer and even an inventor.

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Rodolfo Hinostroza was a Peruvian poet, writer, journalist, food critic and astrologer. He was born in Lima.

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Silvia Núñez del Arco Vidal is a Peruvian writer and wife of journalist Jaime Bayly.

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Angélica Palma y Román was a writer, journalist and biographer from Peru.

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Clemente Palma was a Peruvian writer. He was the son of famous Peruvian author and scholar Ricardo Palma and Ecuadorian Clemencia Ramínez. His halfsister Angélica Palma was also a writer.

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Felipe Pardo y Aliaga was a Peruvian poet, satirist, playwright, lawyer and politician.

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Daniel Kirino Peredo Menchola was a Peruvian journalist, announcer and writer. He worked for several important newspapers and in TV and radio in Peru. He was one of the most important Peruvian sports journalists. He is considered one of the best sports storytellers of Peruvian football and one of the most loved in recent years by the fans of that country

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Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.

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

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Claudia Ulloa Donoso is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromso. Her published work includes the short story collections El pez que aprendió a caminar and Pajarito, as well as Séptima Madrugada based on the weblog of the same name. In 2017, she was included in the Bogota39 list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.