The Peruvian Academy of Language ( es, Academia Peruana de la Lengua) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the

Spanish language Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in th ...

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy f ...

. It was founded in

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...

on May 5, 1887. Its first elected president was

Francisco García Calderón Francisco García Calderón Landa (April 2, 1834 – September 21, 1905) was a lawyer and Provisional President of the Republic of Peru for a short seven-month period in 1881, during the War of the Pacific. García Calderón was a key figure ...

. The second president was

Ricardo Palma Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano (February 7, 1833 – October 6, 1919) was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the ''Tradiciones peruanas''. Biography According to the official account, Manuel Ricardo Pa ...

. It is a member of the

Association of Spanish Language Academies The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language ( es, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, ASALE) is an entity whose end is to work for the unity, integrity, and growth of the Spanish language. It was created in Mexico in 1951 an ...

Current members

* Sr. D. Estuardo Núñez * Sr. D.

Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias (21 December 1918 – 11 June 2019) was a Peruvian philosopher, journalist and politician. In his works he discusses the belief in "human nature" on the basis that any collective assumption about such a natu ...

* Sra. D.ª

Martha Hildebrandt Martha Luz Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño (13 January 1925 – 8 December 2022) was a Peruvian linguist and Fujimorist politician. She was first elected to Congress in 1995 and, in 1999, she became the second woman to serve as President of the Co ...

* Sr. D.

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

* Sr. D. Carlos Germán Belli * Sr. D. José A. de la Puente Candamo * Sr. D. Enrique Carrión Ordóñez * Sr. D. José Luis Rivarola * Sr. D. Manuel Pantigoso Pecero * Sr. D.

Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino (born February 10, 1940 in Huancayo, Peru) is a Peruvian linguist who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the Quechuan languages. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of t ...

* Sr. D. Jorge Puccinelli Converso * Sr. D.

Gustavo Gutiérrez Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (born 8 June 1928) is a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest, regarded as one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. He currently holds the John Cardinal O'Hara Professo ...

* Sr. D. Fernando de Trazegnies Granda * Sr. D.

Fernando de Szyszlo Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar (5 July 1925 – 9 October 2017) was a Peruvian painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, printmaking, printmaker, and teaching, teacher who was a key figure in advancing abstraction, abstract art in Latin America ...

* Sr. D. José León Herrera * Sr. D. Marco Martos Carrera - President of the Academy from 2006 to 2014 and since 2018. * Sr. D. Ricardo González Vigil * Sr. D. Edgardo Rivera Martínez * Sr. D. Ricardo Silva Santisteban - President of the Academy from 2014 to 2017. * Sr. D. Ismael Pinto Vargas * Sr. D. Eduardo Francisco Hopkins Rodríguez * Sr. D. Salomón Lerner Febres * Sr. D. Luis Alberto Ratto * Sr. D. Alberto Varillas Montenegro * Sr. D. Camilo Rubén Fernández Cozman

Current members

See also