AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR
Born in Guatemala City of Jerusalem-born Sephardic parents, Victor Perera immigrated with his family to
New York when he was twelve. He received his B.A. in literature from Brooklyn College and a MA in
Writing from the University of Michigan. He has worked as an editor at The New Republic, and has been a
freelance journalist. His first novel, The Conversion, was published in 1970. In the eighties and early
nineties Perera published three books: the autobiographical Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood; The Last
Lords of Palenque (co-authored with Robert Bruce); and Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy.
In 1995 The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey was published. Mr. Perera is one of the
founding editors of a new inter-cultural magazine IVRI. Victor Perera lives in Berkeley.
Works by Victor
Perera
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