Alonso Cueto
Alonso Cueto Caballero is a Peruvian novelist and playwright. He was born in Lima and studied at the Catholic University of Peru, from where he graduated in 1977. He then spent two years in Europe, teaching English in Madrid and travelling. He then went on to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States, completing his Ph.D. in 1984.
In 2007, Cueto also collaborated with the highly acclaimed radio program "Mi Novela Favorita" (Mi Favorite Novel) which airs on RPP (Radio Programas del Peru) along with Alonso Alegria, Mario Vargas Llosa and several others, writing a few of the scripts for the show.
In 2000, Cueto was awarded the Anna Seghers Prize in Berlin on account of his literary production. In 2005 he won the prestigious Herralde Prize in Barcelona with his novel "La Hora Azul" ("The blue hour"). This novel was considered the best novel in spanish in the year by the Peoples Publishing House of China. In 2007, he won the finalista prize in the "Planeta-Casa de America" novel award, with "El Susurro de la mujer ballena" ("The whisper of the whale woman"). His work has been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Serbian, Hebrew, Korean and Mandarin Chinese.
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