Porfirio Meneses Lazón

Porfirio Meneses Lazón (Huanta, 1915 – Lima, 2009) was a Peruvian author famous as a major writer in Quechua. A collection of his Quechua stories were published in a bilingual edition in French as Contes du lever du jour (2001). He was the author of two collections of Quechua poems: Suyaypa llaqtan (1988) and Yapa tinkunakuy (2009) 30 sonnets with Spanish translations; and a collection of Quechua stories Achikyay willaykuna (1998).