Pablo Landeo Muñoz
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Born | 1959 Huancavelica |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Quechua, Spanish |
Nationality | Peruvian |
Alma mater | San Marcos University, Lima |
Genre | Poetry, non-fiction |
Years active | 2011–present |
Notable works | Aqupampa (2016) |
Notable awards | Peru's National Prize of Literature |
Pablo Landeo Muñoz (Huancavelica, Perú, 1959) is a Peruvian award-winning writer, translator, and teacher of language and literature. His literary works are written in Quechua and Spanish.
Education and career
[edit]Pablo Landeo Muñoz studied literature at Peru's National University of San Marcos in Lima, where he got his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Currently he is completing graduate studies at Paris's INALCO where he also teaches Quechua language and culture. In 2019 he was the writer in residence at the Quechua program of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he offered talks on Quechua literature.[1]
Landeo-Muñoz is the director of the literary magazine Atuqpa Chupan ("The fox’s tail" in Quechua), which is published annually and written entirely in Quechua.
Literary works
[edit]In 2011 he published the book Los hijos de Babel in Spanish. In 2013 he published a collection of stories from Huancavelica in Quechua Ayacucho under the title Wankawillka, complemented by translations into Spanish and a study in Quechua.
Peru's National Prize of Literature
[edit]In 2016 Landeo-Muñoz published the novel Aqupampa, considered the first major novel written in Quechua without a Spanish translation. In 2018 the novel was awarded Peru's National Prize of Literature, Category of Indigenous Languages. The novel describes stories of rural migration to Peru's capital, Pueblos jóvenes, and the violence of the Shining Path in the 20th Century.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]Research publications
[edit]- 2014: Categorías andinas para una aproximación al willakuy. Umallanchikpi kaqkuna. Asamblea Nacional de Rectores, Lima. (Masters thesis)
Poetry in Spanish
[edit]- 2011: Los hijos de babel. Perú Grupo Pakarina, Lima
Short stories in Quechua
[edit]- 2013: Wankawillka. Hanaqpacha ayllukunapa willakuynin. Perú Grupo Pakarina, Lima
Novel in Quechua
[edit]- 2016: Aqupampa. Perú Grupo Pakarina, Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima. 106 pages. ISBN 9786124297090
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Video: Quechua-language literary night with Pablo Landeo Muñoz, Irma Alvarez Ccoscco and Américo Mendoza Mori at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania [1]
- Pablo Landeo Muñoz. Aqupampa Quyllur, fragment of the novel Aqupampa, 20 de mayo de 2015.
- Pablo Landeo Muñoz, Atuqpa Chupan. «Runasimipi qillqaqmasiykunata qayakuy» (espejo), 29 March 2013.
- Libros peruanos: Pablo Landeo Muñoz
- César Itier. «Aqupampa, de Pablo Landeo Muñoz, la primera novela escrita en quechua» (PDF). 17 de julio de 2016.
- Museo de arte de Lima – «MALI ofrece en quechua el recorrido por sus salas de exhibición permanente».
- Living people
- Quechua-language writers
- Quechua language activists
- 1959 births
- Peruvian male poets
- Peruvian male novelists
- Peruvian novelists
- Peruvian male short story writers
- Peruvian short story writers
- 21st-century Peruvian poets
- 21st-century novelists
- 21st-century short story writers
- 21st-century male writers
- People from Huancavelica Region
- National University of San Marcos alumni