Garcilaso's Inca roots a highlight of Beijing event

Chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - whose name is less well-known in China than in some other parts of the world as compared to Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes and English playwright William Shakespeare - died on April 23, 1616, the same date as the two other literary icons.

The date was announced as the World Book and Copyright Day by UNESCO in 1995.

The Cervantes Institute in Beijing recently held an event, where Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki and Xu Shicheng, a researcher with the Latin America Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, discussed Garcilaso's works.