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The Letras Peruanas magazine has the subtitle “Humanities Magazine.” The notion of humanities that is us is in the most traditional sense, which refers us to the Latin Humanitas . This traditional notion considers as “humanities” all disciplines relat to the human. Thus, in the magazine Letras Peruanas , he wrote Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Augusto and Sebastián Salazar Bondy, José Gálvez and a dazzling plethora of Peruvian masters. We can say without fear of being wrong that in a large part of the issues of this magazine, the writings present there had the firm purpose of constituting a national culture.

The Day of Peruvian Literature seeks to honor , who wrote about literature, but also about history and contribut from the itorial field to learning more about the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega or  Middle East Mobile Number List about Antonio de León Pinelo. Also on this date, Jorge Basadre, Luis Alberto Sánchez, José León Barandarián, Ella Dunbar Temple, Alberto Wagner de Reyna, Rosa Alarco could be honor. The Day of Peruvian Literature would allow us to learn more about these authors and all those who are in some way link to the broad field of the humanities in the sense rais above.



But the celebration is not only commemorative but must be prospective, it must encourage young people to continue the path of our Peruvian writers, thinkers and researchers. Knowing our cultural and intellectual references should also lead us to become aware of national problems and achievements. A question arises: what day to consecrate to Peruvian Letters? I propose that it be January 7th. On this date, the year 1920, Jorge Puccinelli was born, who, as we said above, is the creator of the concept of Peruvian Letters, winner of the National Culture Award twice, teacher of the generation of '50 and many other generations, author of Peruvian literature books for secondary ucation that laid the foundations for the teaching of this subject in our country, and tireless promoter of culture from the Raúl Porras Barrenechea Institute, which was creat on his initiative.