Manuel González Prada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel González Prada

Peruvian politician

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1844

Place of Birth: Lima, Peru

Date of Death: 22-Jul-1918

Profession: writer, poet, politician, journalist, literary critic, philosopher, anarchist

Nationality: Peru

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa (Lima, January 5, 1844 – Lima, July 22, 1918) 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 the academic style known as modernismo.
He was close in spirit to Clorinda Matto de Turner whose first novel, Torn from the Nest approached political indigenismo, and to Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, who like González Prada, practiced a positivism sui generis.