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Clemente Palma (December 3, 1872 - August 13, 1946) was a Peruvian writer. He was the son of famous Peruvian author and scholar Ricardo Palma and Cristina Román Olivier. His sister Angélica Palma was also a writer. ==Life== In 1897 he obtained a degree in Letters from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, with a thesis entitled ''El Porvenir de las Razas en el Perú'' ("The Future of the Races in Peru") in which he defended the controversial thesis that the Peruvian race had to be improved and that this could be achieved through the introduction of Germans into Peru. He also obtained a doctorate from this university with a thesis on philosophy and art and became a professor at the university subsequently. In 1899 he obtained a bachelor of law degree from the same university. During his university studies, he worked as curator of the National Library of Peru and started his activities as a writer. From 1902 to 1904 he was the consul of Peru in Barcelona. In Spain he met Maria Manuela Schmalz whom he married in 1902. Upon his return to Peru, he resumed his position as curator of the National Library of Peru, a post that he held until November 1911. During this period, he founded several cultural and literary magazines such as ''Prisma'' and ''Variedades'' and the daily newspaper ''La Crónica''. From 1911 to 1918, he dedicated himself to the direction of these magazines. He was director of the magazines ''Prisma'' (1906–1908) and ''Variedades'' (1908–1931) and the newspaper ''La Crónica'' (1912–1929). Between 1919 and 1930, Clemente Palma was a Member of Parliament, supporting the authoratitarian President Augusto B. Leguia, who had taken power through a coup. During this period, he remained active in the press and also taught classes of aesthetics and art history at his alma mater. In 1930, he was imprisoned for a while after the coup of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. He was liberated thanks to the pressure of his friends but was forced into exile to Chile in 1932. He could return to Peru only after the assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro in 1933. During his exile in Chile, he wrote the science fiction novel ''XYZ''. After the publication of this novel, he mainly wrote literary criticism and essays. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clemente Palma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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