Location: Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, Bario Alto, Lima, Peru
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Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Palma's literary reputation rests upon his creation and development of the literary genre known as tradiciones, short stories that mix history and fiction, written both to amuse and educate. His Tradiciones peruanas span several centuries, with an emphasis on earlier colonial and republican times in Peru.
Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Palma's literary reputation rests upon his creation and development of the literary genre known as tradiciones, short stories that mix history and fiction, written both to amuse and educate. His Tradiciones peruanas span several centuries, with an emphasis on earlier colonial and republican times in Peru.
Some of the Tradiciones peruanas have been translated into English under the title The Knights of the Cape and Thirty-seven Other Selections from the Tradiciones Peruanas of Ricardo Palma (1945) and more recently under the title Peruvian Traditions (2004).
His son Clemente Palma became a prominent writer of fantastic tales, usually horror stories that were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. His daughter Angélica Palma was also a writer and a member of the early feminist movement in Peru.
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