The day I met Ricardo Palma
Sure, with Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa Peru has his first Nobel winner, but it was
Ricardo Palma who put Peru on the literature map first with his epic
Tradiciones Peruana. Like
Aisopos and Grimm before him he used traditional Peruvian stories and blend them into very interesting and funny shorts.
He is also one of the founders of modern independent Peru, so no wonder that so many things (Streets, Universities, schools etc.) are named after him. We visited his house in Miraflores Lima which is just as it was when he died back in 1962.
