Rosa Arciniega

Rosa Arciniega (born perhaps 1903, 1908, or 1909 in Lima; died 1999 in Argentina) was a Peruvian novelist with a Socialist bent. She was a pioneer of women's rights, and belonged to the generation of left-leaning intellectuals led by José Carlos Mariátegui.

As a young person, she traveled to Spain (where she published many of her works), affiliated herself with the Socialist party, and began her work as a journalist. She got married in 1924, and in 1936 she returned to Peru, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

She is principally known for her biographies and several novels.

Her third novel, the 1933 dystopian Mosko-Strom. El torbellino de las grandes metrópolis depicts a noisy mechanical world that worships progress and is indifferent to the welfare of human beings.