José María Arguedas

José María Arguedas was a Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist who, raised among Quechua-speaking communities in the Andes, became the leading writer of indigenous Andean life in Spanish. His novels, including Deep Rivers (Los ríos profundos, 1958) and All the Bloods (Todas las sangres, 1964), portray the conflicts between Andean and Hispanic cultures. He also collected and translated Quechua songs and myths, and he died by suicide in 1969.