Alonso Cueto
Biography
Alonso Cueto was born in Lima, in1954. His father was the philosopher Carlos Cueto Fernandini and his mother Lilly Caballero de Cueto, a specialist in education and illiteracy. His two younger brothers went on to be, respectively, a professor of psychology and a profesor of history. He studied literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After travelling to Spain he took a doctorate at the University of Texas, with a thesis on Juan Carlos Onetti. He has worked as a journalist and an academic. He has written novels, essays, drama, stories and children’s works. His adult novels have been in various styles, including political, detective novels and psychological novels. He has specifically dealt with the political situation in Peru.
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Bibliography
1983 La batalla del pasado (stories)
1985 El tigre blanco (novel)
1987 Los vestidos de una dama, (stories)
1994 Amores de invierno (stories)
1995 El vuelo de la ceniza (novel)
1998 Pálido cielo (story)
1999 Demonio del mediodía (novel)
2002 El otro amor de Diana Abril (short novels)
2002 Encuentro casual (drama)
2003 Grandes miradas, (novel)
2003 Mario Vargas Llosa. La vida en movimiento (literature)
2005 Valses, rajes y cortejos (articles)
2005 La hora azul (The Blue Hour) (novel)
2007 El susurro de la mujer ballena (novel)
2008 Sueños reales (literature)
2009 Rosa Mercedes Ayarza (biographical novel)
2009 Juan Carlos Onetti. El soñador en la penumbra (literature)
2010 La venganza del silencio (novel)
2011 El árbol del tesoro (children’s)
2012 Cuerpos secretos (novel)
2014 La piel de un escritor. Contar, escribir y leer historias (literature)
2104 Lágrimas artificiales / Dalia y los perros (short novels)
2015 La pasajera (novel)
2015 Duelo en la Ciudad de Plata (novel)
2016 La viajera del viento (The Wind Traveller) (novel)
2017 La segunda amante del rey (novel)
2018 Testamento de sangre (novel)
2019 La Perricholi. Reina de Lima (novel)
2019 Palabras de otro lado (novel)