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César Vallejo
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Peruvian writer
César Vallejo was a Peruvian writer whose work had significant impact on literature in the Spanish-speaking world. He is remembered as an important literary figure whose writing helped shape modern Spanish-language poetry and prose.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abraham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Peru
- Place of birth
- Santiago de Chuco
- Place of death
- Paris
- Spouse
- Georgette Vallejo
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- National University of San Marcos
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Notable work
- Trilce
- Movement
- avant-garde
- Image
- Cesar Vallejo (1930) - Restored.jpg
- Political ideology
- communism
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- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- Commons category
- César Vallejo
- date of birth
- 1892-03-16
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- date of death
- 1938-04-15
- second family name in Spanish name
- Mendoza
- birth name
- César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza
- name in native language
- César Vallejo
- Commons Creator page
- César Vallejo
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Encyclopedic overview
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. 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 the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.
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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