Enrique López Albujar He was a writer, he was born in Chiclayo on November 23, 1872 and died in Lima in 1966. Son of Manuel López Vilela and Manuela Albújar Bravo, both of Piuran descent. He spent his childhood in Piura and Morropón. He studied primary school in Piura and secondary school in Lima, first at the Maticorena Preparatory School (1886-1888), and then at the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe National School (1889-1890). He entered the National University of San Marcos, participating in politics and dabbling in journalism. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in Law (1900) he returned to Piura and, in that city, obtained his law degree before the superior court of justice the following year.
Convictions of Enrique López Albújar
He felt he was the spiritual heir of González Prada, expressing great affection for the indigenous and repulsion for caciquism and feudalism. His antimilitarist convictions led him to write a satirical little letter against General Cáceres in 1893, which is why he ended up in jail. Years later, in line with his ideas, he joined Augusto Durand's Liberal Party. In 1904 he founded the local committee of said party in Piura and from 1904 to 1908 he edited El Amigo del Pueblo , in whose pages he expressed his position against the oligarchy that exploited the peasants. He was finally able to freely express those convictions that had been rejected in 1898, when he presented his thesis on The injustice of land ownership at the National University of San Marcos. To combat The Friend of the People , the prefect of Piura, Mr. Germán Leguía y Martínez founded in 1905 El Sol , a conservative newspaper that failed to neutralize the sympathy captured by López Albújar's defense of popular interests. In Piura he was a history teacher at the San Miguel national school and directed El Deber between 1915 and 1916. That year he joined the Lima newspaper La Prensa as editor-in-chief. , but he almost immediately abandoned journalism and devoted himself entirely to the judiciary. He became a judge of first instance in Huánuco from 1917 to 1923, and in Piura from this year to 1928; he then went to Lambayeque as member of the Superior Court and then to Tacna where he retired in 1947.
Main works of Enrique López Albújar
Of his work, Cuentos Andinos stand out. (1920), the book of memories Of my house (1924), the novels of him Matalaché (1928) and The spell of Tomayquichua (1943) and his poetry collections Miniaturas (1895), From the wild land (1938) and Votive Lamp (1964). Posthumously published The Diogenes Woman , Tales of sand and sun , Sticks to the wind (1972) -whose compilation is due to his biographer Raúl Estuardo Cornejo- and Don Juan's right hand (1973), stories edited by José Jiménez Borja. With Cuentos Andinos, López Albújar initiated the new indigenous trend in Peruvian narrative , taking up the theme of Narciso Aréstegui and Clorinda Matto de Turner and proposing a new naturalism that included psychological inquiry.