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Juan Wallparrimachi Mayta (Potosí, c. 1793–1814) was a Bolivian poet and pro-independence guerrilla fighter who wrote in Quechua. He worked in his people's tradition while also producing décima in indigenous language. His work fell into relative neglect.[1]
Wallparrimachi was born in the village of Macha, in the Chayanta Province of the Potosí Department in Bolivia.[2] The grandson of a Portuguese Jew, and the son of an indigenous mother from Cuzco, Peru, and a Spanish father, who both died shortly after his birth.[3][4] He was raised by indigenous people and later recruited by the guerrillas Manuel Ascensio Padilla and Juana Azurduy de Padilla, with whom he fought against the Spanish government.[5] As he only knew the surname of his maternal grandfather, he adopted it.[6]
He died at the age of 20, in an 1814 battle in the Bolivian War of Independence, under the command of his leader and protector, Juana Azurduy.[7] He has passed into immortality as a "poet-soldier" in Bolivian literature.
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