The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period
First page of the Chrónica del Perú by Pedro Cieza de León
First page of the Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno of Guamán Poma de Ayala.
Cesar Vallejo, modernist in Los Heraldos Negros and vanguardist in Trilce
Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas.
Palma in 1910
Statue of Palma in Bogotá.