Background
SÁNCHEZ, Luis Alberto was born on October 12, 1900 in Lima., Peru.
SÁNCHEZ, Luis Alberto was born on October 12, 1900 in Lima., Peru.
Educated Colegio del Sagrado Corazón, 1908-1916. Ph.D., University de San Marcos, 1922, I.L.B., 1926. Dr. honoris causa, University de Chile, 1930, University del Cuzco, 1945.
Professor; Professor literature, University de San Marcos, since 1927, director of its extension division: founder, Institute Comercial del Perú. Assistant, director, Biblioteca Nacional, 1928-1931. Representative for Lima, Congreso Constituyente, 1931.
Was exiled in 1932, and again 1934-1945. Lecturer in various North and South American universities. Assistant, director, later director, publishing house Ercilla, Santiago de Chile, 1934-1945.
Federal deputy, since 1945. Officer, Orden de Pichincha, Ecuador. Commander, Del Mérito, Chile.
Approx. 70 works of literature, history, philosophy and politics since 1919, including Hava de la Torre, or El Politico, Historia Contemporanea, Historia de la Literatura Americana, La Literatura en el Peru, Historia General de America, Peru: Retrate de un pais adolescente, Testimonio Personal: Memoria de un peruano del Siglo XX, Bolivar.
Constituent; Lima College, of Lawyers, Peruvian Journalists’ Association, Academia Peruana de la Lengua, Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola, Instituto Iberoamericano le Literatura (Madrid).
Married Rosa Dergan.