Alfredo Bryce
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born February 19, 1939) is a Peruvian writer who was born in Lima.
He has written several books and short stories.
Early days
Bryce was born in Edinburgh, Peruvian businessman John Weddle Bryce (1817), ancestor of the Marquesses of Milford-Haven and the Duchesses of Abercon and Westminster, as a descendent of the Duchesses of Abercon and Westminster. He was the third son and fourth of Francisco Bryce Arróspide and his mother, Elena Echenique Basombro, granddaughter of former President José Rufino Echenique.
Bryce attended elementary school in Inmaculado Corazón school and high school at Santa Mara School and Saint Paul's College, a British boarding school for boys in Lima. Bryce Echenique studied law at the National University of San Marcos, where he received his degree in 1964. His literary passion nonetheless flourished, and he also completed a parallel Bachelor of Arts in literature with a thesis on Ernest Hemingway in 1963. He adopted Spanish nationality in 1988 without leaving his Peruvian one.
Literary career
He received a grant from the French government that, like many other Latin American writers of the boom period, led him to Paris in 1964. For one academic year at Sorbonne, he researched classical and contemporary French literature. He lived in Peruggia, Mykonos, and Germany from 1965 to 1966, where he began studying German thanks to a Goethe-Institut grant.
Bryce taught Spanish in a Le Maurais school from 1967 to 1968. He released his first book, Huerto Cerrado, this year, and the Sorbonne's next year, as a Latin American literature lecturer. He had been named A World for Julius in 1970.
He received the Peruvian National Prize for Literature in 1972, and he came as an assistant lecturer to the University of Vincennes in 1973. (Paris VIII) In 1975, Bryce received a Guggenheim grant and earned a master's degree in comparative literature from Vincennes. He returned to Peru in 1977 and obtained his doctoral degree from San Marcos University with a thesis on Henri de Montherlant.
In 1980, he went to Montpellier, where he became a professor at the Paul Valéry University. Bryce landed in Barcelona in 1984, first in Barcelona and then in Madrid in 1989. In 1997, he returned to Peru, where he now lives.
Huerto Cerrado's first book, which was published in 1968, was a finalist for the Casa de las Américas literary prize in Cuba, and it is a collection of short stories about a young protagonist, Manolo, a member of Lima's upper class, as he came of age in 1950s Lima. Un Mundo para Julius, his first book, was released in 1970 and is still one of Latin American literature's most popular books. The book, which has since been translated into ten languages, tells the tale of a young boy who grows up as the youngest of four children of a wealthy, Peruvian upper-class family. Although Julius is actually a member of the executive classes, he has a stronger bond with the servants around him, which brings him into conflict with his family. The author reveals Peruvian society's deep socioeconomic divisions by biting irony through the eyes of a child.
Awards
- Casa de las Américas Prize for Huerto cerrado (accessit), 1968
- Peruvian National Prize for Literature for A World for Julius, 1972
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (finalist), 1974
- Prix Passion, 1984
- Chevalier and later ascended to Official of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1984 and 1995
- Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, 1993
- Order of the Sun (rejected)
- Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize, 1997
- National Literature Prize for Narrative of Spain for Reo de Nocturnidad, 1998
- Doctor Honoris Causa from San Marcos University, 1999
- Commander of the Order of Alfonso XII of Spain, 2000
- Grinzane Cavour Prize for Tarzan's Tonsillitis, 2002
- Premio Planeta de Novela for El huerto de mi amada, 2002
- FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages, 2012