Academia Peruana de la Lengua
Encyclopedia
The Academia Peruana de la Lengua (Spanish for Peruvian Academy of Language) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language
in Peru
.
It was founded in Lima
on May 5, 1887. Its first elected president was Francisco García Calderón
. The second president was Ricardo Palma
.
It is a member of the Association of Spanish Language Academies
.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
in Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
.
It was founded in Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
on May 5, 1887. Its first elected president was Francisco García Calderón
Francisco García Calderón
Francisco García Calderón Landa was a lawyer and president of Peru for a short seven-month period in 1881, during the War of the Pacific. His predecessor was Nicolás de Piérola, his successor was Lizardo Montero Flores...
. The second president was Ricardo Palma
Ricardo Palma
Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas.- Biography :...
.
It is a member of the Association of Spanish Language Academies
Association of Spanish Language Academies
The Association of Spanish Language Academies is the entity which regulates the Spanish language. It was created in Mexico in 1951 and represents the union of all the separate academies in the Spanish-speaking world....
.
Current members
- Sr. D. Estuardo Núñez
- Sr. D. Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias
- Sra. D.ª Martha HildebrandtMartha HildebrandtMartha Luz Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño is a Peruvian linguist and politician. Martha Hildebrandt was the second woman to occupy the Presidency of the Congress of the Republic of Peru in 1999...
- Sr. D. Mario Vargas LlosaMario Vargas LlosaJorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
- Sr. D. Carlos Germán BelliCarlos Germán BelliCarlos Germán Belli de La Torre is a Peruvian poet of Italian parentage. He won the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda in 2006 which was awarded by the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile...
- Sr. D. José A. de la Puente Candamo
- Sr. D. Enrique Carrión Ordóñez
- Sr. D. José Luis Rivarola
- Sr. D. Manuel Pantigoso Pecero
- Sr. D. Rodolfo Cerrón PalominoRodolfo Cerrón PalominoRodolfo Cerrón Palomino is a Peruvian linguist who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the Quechua language. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of the Aymara, Mochica and Chipaya languages.- Biography :He pursued his first degree at the...
- Sr. D. Jorge Puccinelli Converso
- Sr. D. Javier MariáteguiJavier MariateguiJavier Mariategui Chiappe was a renowned Peruvian intellectual and psychiatrist. He was born the 13th September 1928. Was the latest of the children of Jose Carlos Mariategui and Ana Chiappe. Studied at the University of San Marcos where also he started teaching; he was also a founder of the...
- Sr. D. Gustavo GutiérrezGustavo GutiérrezGustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P., is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology...
- Sr. D. Fernando de Trazegnies Granda
- Sr. D. Fernando de SzyszloFernando de SzyszloFernando De Szyszlo Valdelomar is a Peruvian artist who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.-Studies and influences:...
- Sr. D. José León Herrera
- Sr. D. Marco Martos CarreraMarco Martos CarreraMarco Martos Carrera is a Peruvian poet and the President of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua. It's assumed from critics to be one of the most important persons of the Peruvian "60's generation". Critics also appoints that he uses a simple way of expression with an ironic way to project the life...
- Sr. D. Ricardo González Vigil
- Sr. D. Edgardo Rivera Martínez
- Sr. D. Ricardo Silva Santisteban
- Sr. D. Ismael Pinto Vargas
- Sr. D. Eduardo Francisco Hopkins Rodríguez
- Sr. D. Salomón Lerner Febres
- Sr. D. Luis Alberto Ratto
- Sr. D. Alberto Varillas Montenegro
- Sr. D. Camilo Rubén Fernández Cozman
See also
- Peruvian literaturePeruvian literatureThe term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ethnic groups that existed in the area during the...
- Its internet site (in Spanish only)