Alberto Varillas

Alberto Varillas Montenegro was a Peruvian politician. He served as Minister [of Education of Peru|Minister of Education] from 1992 to 1993 under Alberto Fujimori's presidency.
Varillas died in Lima on 5 January 2025, at the age of 90.
He became very famous among scholars of Peru's nineteenth century with La literatura peruana del siglo XIX: personificación y caracterización, the first attempt at ordering the country's fervorous literary activity during that century.
He was also an active member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and of the Ricardo Palma Institute.