About Alberto Varillas
Lived 1934 – 2025 (aged 90). Alberto Varillas was a Peruvian lawyer, literary scholar and jurist.
Alberto Varillas Montenegro (26 January 1934 – 5 January 2025) was a Peruvian politician. He served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 under Alberto Fujimori's presidency.
Varillas died in Lima on 5 January 2025, at the age of 90.
He became very famous among scholars of Peru's nineteenth century with La literatura peruana del siglo XIX: personificación y caracterización (1990), the first attempt at ordering the country's fervorous literary activity during that century.
He was also an active member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and of the Ricardo Palma Institute.
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Who was Alberto Varillas?
Peruvian lawyer
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Alberto Varillas was born on 26 January 1934 in Lima.
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Alberto Varillas died on 5 January 2025 in Lima.
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Alberto Varillas was a lawyer, literary scholar and jurist.
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Alberto Varillas was Peruvian.
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