Alonso Llerena

Alonso Llerena is a Peruvian writer, visual artist, translator, and educator. He earned an MFA from Bard: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and his current work explores the interconnection between the poetics of exile and the poetics of the remains.
Alonso Llerena is a Peruvian writer, visual artist, translator, and educator. He earned an MFA from Bard: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and his current work explores the interconnection between the poetics of exile and the poetics of the remains.
Alonso Llerena
José Carlos Agüero (author) (Lima, 1975) Peruvian historian and writer. Researcher on issues of political violence and historical memory. He has published—among other texts related to disappearances, political violence and public education in Peru—the essay Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar (IEP, 2015), the poetry book Enemigo (Intermezzo tropical, 2016), the set of stories Cuentos Heridos (Lumen, 2017), and Persona (FCE 2017), published by Fondo de Cultura Económica that was awarded with the 2018 National Prize for Peruvian Literature in the Non-fiction Category.

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