Antenor Orrego Espinoza (22 May 1892 – 17 July 1960) was a Peruvian writer and political philosopher of Basque ancestry. He was a member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). The Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (Antenor Orrego Private University), founded in Trujillo, Peru in 1988, is named after him. Antenor Orrego was born in 1892 to José Asunción Orrego and Victoria Espinoza Villanueva in the Chota Province in the Department of Cajamarca in Peru. He died in Lima, Peru in 1960. See also North Group References 1892 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Peruvian writers Peruvian philosophers Peruvian journalists Male journalists Peruvian male writers North Group (Trujillo) National University of Trujillo alumni Peruvian people of Basque descent 20th-century journalists 20th-century philosophers