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César Vallejo
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza 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 o…
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culture · Peruvian writer & poet (1892–1938) · poet · playwright · translator · journalist · essayist · novelist · short story writer · writer · also César Vallejo, Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendosa, Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza, C. Vallejo, Vallejo
Born 16 March 1892 · Died 15 April 1938 · Q222744
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2026· 5 entries
Diario Correo: César Vallejo se impuso por 1-0 a Mannucci en la Liga 2
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Bolavip: Dónde ver EN VIVO Carlos A. Mannucci vs César Vallejo por la Liga 2: hora, canales de TV y streaming online
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Futbolperuano.com: Se reparten los puntos: César Vallejo no pudo ante Pirata FC en Trujillo por la fecha 13 de la Liga 2
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Yahoo Noticias en Español: Corte de Piura y Universidad César Vallejo alistan convenio para fortalecer la capacitación
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2024· 3 entries
El Comercio: Comerciantes Unidos (2)-(0) César Vallejo: partido por la fecha 11 del Torneo Clausura 2024
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La República: César Vallejo denuncia que 3 jugadores son extorsionados para manipular resultado en la Liga 1
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Infobae: César Vallejo vs Always Ready 2-0: goles y resumen de la derrota ‘poeta’ por la Copa Sudamericana 2024
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2019· 1 entry
américa: Torneo Clausura: César Vallejo derrotó por 2-0 en su visita a Pirata FC
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2007· 1 entry
The Judiciary of Peru vindicated Vallejo's memory in a ceremony calling to the poet unfairly accused
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1994· 1 entry
Harold Bloom included España, Aparta de Mí Este Cáliz in his list of influential works of the Western Canon
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1970· 1 entry
His widow, Georgette Vallejo, had his remains moved and reinterred in the Montparnasse cemetery
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1938· 2 entries
Died 1938-04-15.
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1931· 1 entry
Reflections at the foot of the Kremlin), first published in 1931, is a journalistic work describing Vallejo's impressions of the new socialist society that he saw being built in Soviet Russia
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1930· 1 entry
The Spanish government awarded him a modest author's grant
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1927· 1 entry
Had formally met Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (see Georgette Vallejo), whom he had seen when she was 17 and lived in his neighborhood
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1926· 1 entry
Met his first French lover, Henriette Maisse, with whom he lived until their breakup in October 1928
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1923· 1 entry
Vallejo emigrated to Europe under the threat of further incarceration and remained there until his death in Paris in 1938
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1922· 1 entry
Anticipated much of the avant-garde movement that would develop in the 1920s and 1930s
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1920· 1 entry
Won second place (first place was declared void) from the city hall of Trujillo for the poem, "Fabla de gesta (Tribute to Marqués de Torre Tagle)"
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1915· 1 entry
The same year that he became acquainted with the bohemia of Trujillo, in particular with APRA co-founders Antenor Orrego and Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
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1911· 1 entry
Vallejo moved to Lima, where he studied at National University of San Marcos; read, worked as a schoolteacher, and came into contact with the artistic and political avant-garde
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-03-16.
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