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Alegría, Ciro (1909–1967)
Ciro Alegría (b. November 1909; d. February 1967), Peruvian novelist, essayist, and politician. A relative of the Argentine novelist Benito Lynch, in his youth, Alegría had as his first-grade teacher the mestizo César Vallejo, one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century.
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Alegría lived for some time on his paternal grandfather's estate in Marcabal Grande, where he familiarized himself with the indigenous culture, camping with the natives at the edge of the jungle and listening to their tales.
Alegría was active in the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana—APRA), for which he was imprisoned in 1932–1933.
Forced into exile from 1934 to 1960, he returned to Peru and was elected to the Peruvian Chamber of Deputies in 1963. While in exile Alegría lived and wrote in Santiago, Chile, winning prizes for his first three novels: La serpiente de oro (1935; The Golden Serpent), Los perro