Manuel Gonzales Prada

Who was Manuel Gonzales Prada?

Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa was a Peruvian politician and anarchist, literary critic and director of the National Library of Peru. He is well remembered as a social critic who helped develop Peruvian intellectual thought in the early twentieth century, as well as academic style known as modernismo. He was close in spirit to Clorinda Matto de Turner who dedicated her first novel, Torn from the Nest, to him, and to Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, who like González Prada, was a sui generis positivist.