Welch, Mary

Edmundo Bendezu spoke Spanish at home and learned the Quechua language with his Indian friends in the city high in the central Peruvian Andes where he was born, in Huanta, Ayacucho. His books about Peruvian and Quechua/Inca literature, written in Spanish, include "Literatura quechua," which he translated from Quechua into Spanish; "La otra literatura peruana;" "La poetica de Martin Adan," winner of Peru's national literary prize; "El delirio de los coribantes;" "Literatura, ideologia e historia en la biografia de Francisco Pizarro;" and "La novela peruana: De Olavide a Bryce." His novels of hi...