Reading... César Vallejo (Peru)

Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Leeds Poetry Club continues with a session dedicated to Peruvian poetry. We will approach the prolific writer and poet César Vallejo, who is one of the greatest innovators of universal poetry of the 20th century and the highest exponent of Peruvian literature. The session will be coordinated by Diana Cullell, professor at the University of Liverpool.

César Vallejo was born in Santiago de Chuco (Peru) in 1892. He graduated from the University of Trujillo in 1915, with the thesis El romanticismo en la poesía castellana. Vallejo is considered one of the most important poets in the history of Peru, with a body of work that reflects the pain of social injustice. His best-known collections of poems are: Los heraldos negros (1919), Trilce (1922), España, aparta de mí este cáliz (1939), Poemas humanos (1939). His narrative works include Paco Yunque (1931), Fabla salvaje (1923) and El Tungsteno (1923).