📋 Tender Overview
More than 400,000 students from all over the country will have free access to works by Vallejo, Vargas Llosa, Arguedas, Varela and other Peruvian authorsThe first batch of 300 books was delivered at the IE Oscar Miro Quesada de la Guerra
The Ministry of Education (Minedu) began the national distribution of the Populibros Caslit collection with the delivery of the first batch of 300 copies to the Oscar Miro Quesada de la Guerra Educational Institution, located in Barrios Altos. This activity marked the starting point of a strategy that will benefit 404,177 students from 672 public educational institutions.
The Minister of Education, Jorge Figueroa, highlighted that this initiative democratizes access to culture and allows Peruvian authors to continue educating from the classrooms. He noted that this delivery is aimed mainly at high school students and makes available works that are fundamental for identity and citizen education.
For his part, the director of the House of Peruvian Literature, Gary Marroquin, explained that the delivery of books will be accompanied by a sustained reading mediation strategy that will strengthen the training of students and teachers.
As part of this reading promotion strategy, Minedu, through the House of Peruvian Literature (Caslit), plans to distribute 235,000 books throughout the country. For this year, 141,120 books that make up the Populibros Caslit collection began to be distributed, prioritizing educational institutions with reading centers; that is, those that have a school library and library staff.
The collection is made up of 10 books that bring together emblematic titles by great references of Peruvian literature, such as Los heraldos negra, Trilce and Poemas humano (in one volume), by Cesar Vallejo; The City and the Dogs, by Mario Vargas Llosa; The world is wide and foreign, by Ciro Alegria; The deep rivers; by Jose Maria Arguedas; and A World for Julius, by Alfredo Bryce Echenique.
Likewise, Peruvian traditions, by Ricardo Palma; The Knight Carmelo and other stories, by Abraham Valdelomar; Birds without a nest, by Clorinda Matto de Turner; The word of the mute, by Julio Ramon Ribeyro, and Canto villain, by Blanca Varela.
These works not only enrich school libraries, but also connect students with the national literary legacy, while strengthening their reading skills and expanding their understanding of the country through its authors.
The distribution will reach educational institutions in Lima (128 schools), Ancash (55), Arequipa (47), Cusco (47), La Libertad (41), Puno (27), San Martin (25), Piura (25), Ica (25), Lima Provinces (24) and Ucayali (19), among other regions.
