Elva AmbíaW
Elva Ambía

Elva Ambía is a Peruvian award-winning educator, Quechua language activist, writer, and founder of the Quechua Collective of New York.

José María ArguedasW
José María Arguedas

José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of Spanish descent, with a rare fluency in the native Quechua language, gained by living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11 - first in the indigenous servant quarters of his step-mother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an indigenous family approved by his father - who wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.

Pablo Landeo MuñozW
Pablo Landeo Muñoz

Pablo Landeo Muñoz is a Peruvian award-winning writer, translator, and teacher of language and literature. His literary works are written in Quechua and Spanish.

Luis MoratoW
Luis Morato

Luis Morató is a Bolivian scholar, author and former Quechua professor at Cornell University.

Juan Pérez BocanegraW
Juan Pérez Bocanegra

Juan Pérez de Bocanegra, T.O.S.F. was a Catholic priest and member of the Third Order of St. Francis, who was a musician, and specialist in the indigenous languages of colonial Peru.

Domingo de Santo TomásW
Domingo de Santo Tomás

Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, O.P. was a Spanish Dominican missionary, bishop, and grammarian in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He compiled the first Quechua language grammar, published in 1560, and that same year published a work on the vocabulary of Quechua.

Clodoaldo Soto RuizW
Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz

Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz is a Peruvian scholar, author and former Quechua professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.