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Edgardo Rivera Martínez (1933–2018) was a prolific Peruvian author, critic, and translator. He published four novels, over eighty short stories, essays, travel chronicles, anthologies, poetry, and literary and cultural studies. His acclaimed novel País de Jauja (1993; see WLT, March 2023) was a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Literary Prize and was deemed the most important Peruvian literary work of the 1990s by Debate, a respected publication in Peru. His short story “Ángel de Ocongate” won the Caretas magazine’s 1000-Word Story Prize (Cuento de mil palabras), a national competition, in 1986. Rivera Martínez was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 and the Peruvian Ministry of Culture’s National Culture Prize (Premio Nacional de Cultura) in 2013.