Why did Peru’s most famous writer Mario Vargas Llosa punch his best friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the face?
It’s one of the great literary feuds. Mario Vargas Llosa is a prolific and prize winning novelist who ran for President of Peru in 1990.
History
Peru’s pre-eminent historian María Rostworowski is 98 today
Few historians have made as great an impact on our understanding of pre-Columbian Peru and the mysterious Inca Empire as María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco.
Strange Story From Peru: The dictator’s mistress and the reluctant bridegroom
Peru is known as a country of superlatives. It contains the most and highest tropical glaciers and the deepest canyon in the world. The Inca formed the largest and most advanced pre-Columbian empire in the hemisphere. But Peru might just also hold title to the 20th century’s most bizarre shotgun wedding.
Airlines to Peru and the runways of aviation history: Peruvian airport names
If you vacation in Peru, you might wonder about the names of the airports.
Peruvian Pisco’s 400-year history on exhibit in historic Lima
Four hundred years ago, on April 30, 1613, Pedro Manuel, a prosperous merchant from Peru’s Ica Valley, signed his last will and testament.