Ciro Alegría (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

In addition to the works above, Ciro Alegría wrote a collection of short stories, Duelo de los caballeros (1963), two nonfictional works, La revolución cubana (1973) and Sueño y verdad de América (1972), and one poetic work, Cantos de la revolución (1934).

Achievements

Imprisoned in his native Peru for his liberal, antidictatorial convictions and political activism, then exiled to neighboring Chile, Ciro Alegría, at around the age of thirty, wrote the three prizewinning novels that echoed around the world as...

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