Clorinda Matto de Turner was born on November 11, 1854 , in the "Paullu" farm in the province of Calca (Cuzco), being baptized as Grimanesa Martina. She was the daughter of Ramón Torres Matos and Grimanesa Concepción Usandivaras. She carries out her school studies at the Colegio de Educandas del Cuzco. On July 27, 1871, she married the English merchant José Turner, who would give her the name of Clorinda, settling in Tinta. Both she and her brother change her paternal surname and adopt Matto's.
At the age of 24, she directs the magazine El Recreo del Cuzco in the imperial city. (1876), at the same time that she collaborates in El Correo del Perú , from Lima. She visits this city in the first months of 1877, being received with great signs of appreciation, finding consecrated welcome in the evenings organized by the Argentine writer Juana Manuela Gorriti.
she Widowed on March 3, 1881 her, since then taking charge of the maintenance of her family, which decreases with the almost immediate loss of her son. In 1883 she moved to the city of Arequipa, assuming the editorship of the newspaper La Bolsa , directed by Francisco Ibáñez. She, again in Lima, frequents the literary groups of the time and writes for various publications. Between 1889 and 1891 she directed El Perú Ilustrado and then her own newspaper Los Andes (1892-1893). She precisely she is in El Perú Ilustrado it is where Clorinda Matto authorizes the publication of the story Magdala by Coelho Neto, about Jesus and Magdalena, which was considered heretical and earned him not only excommunication and the inclusion of his novel Aves sin nido in the Index, but also a permanent harassment and persecution, having reached the point of burning her effigy in Arequipa.
She founded the printing press La Equitativa and she opens a literary salon in her house. An admirer of the figure of General Andrés A. Cáceres, who was deposed in 1895 by Nicolás de Piérola, she was banished to Buenos Aires, where she settled down and directed the fortnightly El Búcaro Americano . She held this position until her last days, with only an interval in 1908, because of a trip to Spain, where she was received at the Ateneo de Madrid as an exponent of the feminine intelligentsia of Hispanic America. Her first publications are two series of Cuzco Traditions (Arequipa, 1884 and Lima, 1886). In 1889 she began to publish her novels that were widely accepted:the first of them was Aves sin nido , with simultaneous edition in Buenos Aires and translated into English in 1904. It is followed by Índole (Lima, 1891) and Inheritance (Lima, 1893). New traditions and legends are included in Legends and Clippings (Lima, 1893), and biographies, travel stories and historical studies make up other books of his such as Pencil sketches of famous Americans (Lima, 1890) and Borealis, miniatures and porcelain (Buenos Aires, 1902), she also ventured into the theater with a historical-indigenist drama in three acts Hima-Sumac (1892). Shortly before her death, in 1909, Pleasure trips and Four conferences on South America appeared. .
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