Carlos Thorne
Carlos Thorne (March 11, 1923 – September 1, 2021) was a Peruvian novelist, writer and lawyer.
Life and works
Thorne was born in Lima, where he studied law and philosophy. After a successful career as lawyer and some excursions into politics, he decided to devote his life to literature and academic research, writing books and becoming professor in law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima (UNMSM), the oldest in the Americas. He has been visiting lecturer both in literature and law in the universities of Columbia, Salamanca, Uppsala, King's College London, Liverpool and Complutense.
Perhaps his best known contribution to Latin American novel is his Peruvian trilogy. Papá Lucas (1987), is a novel centered on the war against Chile in the 1880s. Next, El señor de Lunahuaná (1994), which is devoted to the wars of independence from the 1810s and 1820s. Finally, El encomendero de la adarga de plata (1999), the most experimental of the three, is a powerful evocation of the
Thorne died in Lima in September 2021, at the age of 98.[3]
Novels
Viva la república (1981)
Papá Lucas (1987)
El señor de Lunahuaná (1994)
El encomendero de la adarga de plata (1999)
Yo, San Martín (2011)
Tales and Short Stories
Los días fáciles (1959)
Mañana Mao (1964)
La diosa Marina (1996)
En las fauces de las Fieras (2004)
Cuentos completos (2005)
País Violento (2016)
Essays
Palabras de Utopía (1983)
Páginas de Extramuros (1993)
El Hilo de la Razón – First edition (1995)
Los oficios de la Lengua (2001)
La generación del 50 y el Periodismo (2007)
El Hilo de la Razón – Augmented Second Edition (2015)
Other writings
La interpretación de la ley. Cuestiones Metodológicas (1989)
References
- ^ Cuédroz, Elías Taxa (1968). Cuentos peruanos para niños: antología. Editorial Universo. p. 211.
- ^ "Fallece el escritor y miembro de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua Carlos Thorne Boas".
- ^ Fallece el escritor y miembro de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua Carlos Thorne Boas
- Seymour Menton, Latin America's New Historical Novel. 1993, University of Texas Press, Austin.
- Seymour Menton, Caminata por la narrativa latinoamericana. 2004, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.
External links
- El Ave Fénix (a tale from Carlos Thorne).
- An Interview published in Perú.
- Article from "El Mundo" (Spain).
- Thorne in the UNMSM.
- Article from "El Mundo" (Spain).
- Bio.
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