César Vallejo
Poet, Author
1892 – 1938
Who was César Vallejo?
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. He was always a step ahead of literary currents, and each of his books was distinct from the others, and, in its own sense, revolutionary. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "...the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in Trujillo city.
Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia's translation of The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo won the National Book Award for translation in 1979.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1892
Santiago de Chuco Province - Also known as
- Cesar Vallejo
- César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza
- César Vallejo
- Spouses
- Georgette Vallejo
(1934 - 1938/04/15)
- Georgette Vallejo
- Ethnicity
- Peruvian
- Nationality
- Peru
- Profession
- Education
- National University of San Marcos
- Lived in
- La Libertad Region
- Lima
- Died
- Apr 15, 1938
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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