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.
La Mujer Nueva americana en España: Rosa Arciniega by María del Carmen Simón Palmer, in Mosaico transatlántico: Escritoras, artistas e imaginarios (España-EEUU, 1830-1940), ed. Beatriz Ferrús and Alba del Pozo, 2017, unpaginated ebook.
Spanish-American Literature: A History, by Enrique Anderson Imbert, 1969, p. 652, briefly discusses the 1931 novel Engranajes, in addition to Mosko-Strom.