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Alfredo Bryce Echenique is a Peruvian writer born
in Lima. He has written several books and short
stories.
==Biography==
Son of a well-off, English-Peruvian family on
February 19th, 1939. Upon the wish of his family,
Bryce Echenique studied law in the National
University of San Marcos until 1964. His literary
interest nevertheless prevailed and so, shortly
afterwards, he completed a parallel study course
in literature with a thesis on Ernest Hemingway. A
year later he received a grant from the French
government which, like many other Latin American
authors of the boom period, led him to Paris. At
the Sorbonne he studied classic and modern French
literature and then taught at various French
schools and universities.

After the story volume "Huerto cerrado" came out
in 1968, his first novel "Un mundo para Julius"
became a big success and counts today as one of
the classics of Latin American literature. The
novel, which has since been translated into ten
languages, tells the story of a young boy who
grows up as the youngest of four children of a
rich, Peruvian upper class family. Although Julius
actually belongs to the ruling classes he feels a
stronger bond with the servants which surround him
and this brings him into conflict with his family.
With biting irony the author exposes, through the
eyes of a child, the great social differences in
Peruvian society.

Un mundo para Julius marks for Bryce Echenique the
start of an extremely productive literary career,
in which he has until today written nearly twenty
novels and story volumes.

I am an author of the second half of the 20th
century. Despite this declaration and his spatial
and temporal closeness to other Latin American
authors of the "boom generation", Bryce Echenique
keeps a conscious distance to his colleagues who
he sometimes refers to as "nouveau riche". That
his style, as one critic once said, corresponds
more to an ironic than a magic realism, is shown
by the author also in his last novel La
amigdalitis de Tarzán from 1999. Largely in the
form of letters, the novel tells the story of the
hindered romantic relationship between a poor
Peruvian writer and the daughter of an influential
Salvadorian family. 

Similar to his heroes, Alfredo Bryce Echenique
also lived for decades far away from his home city
of Lima to which he only returned to in 1999.

==Partial Bibliography==

* Huerto Cerrado
* Un mundo para Julius (A world for Julius)
* Tantas veces Pedro (So many times Pedro)
* No me esperen en Abril (Don't wait for me in
April)
* Permiso para vivir (Antimemorias)
* Reo de Nocturnidad
* La Amigdalitis de Tarzán (Tarzan's Amigdalitis)