21 Top Peruvians

The Lima-based newspaper Peru21 has recently compiled a list of the 21 most successful Peruvians worldwide, from artists and intellectuals to sportspeople, businesspeople and politicians.

The list includes the renowned chef and businessman Gastón Acurio, owner of such successful restaurants as Astrid & Gaston, La Mar, and Hnos Pasquale; the Añaños brothers, owners of an amazing soft drinks company which has already conquered the competitive Mexican market; the great singer and composer Susana Baca; the graceful dancer Vania Masías; the former World Surfing Champion Sofía Mulanovich; Claudio Pizarro and Jefferson Farfán, successful strikers playing in Bayern Munchen and PSV Eindhoven, respectively; novelists Santiago Roncagliolo, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, and Mario Vargas Llosa; tenor Juan Diego Flórez; and economist Hernando De Soto, among others.

A special mention must be spend for the superb Etiqueta Negra magazine, a sort of Latin American New Yorker which continues to surprise -for its quality, design, and diversity- critics and readers all over the world. The magazine, directed and created by journalist Julio Villanueva Chang, received last march a much favourable review by the San Francisco Chronicle.

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