César Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was born on 16 March 1892 in Santiago de Chuco, in the highlands of northern Peru, the youngest of eleven children of a mixed-race family, a grandson of Spanish priests and Indian women. Having earned his bachelor's degree in letters in 1915, he frequented the Norte group of Antenor Orrego and Haya de la Torre in Trujillo, then taught; his mother died in 1918. He left for Europe in 1923 and lived mostly in Paris, stayed in Spain in the early thirties, joined the Communists and supported the Republic during the civil war. He died in Paris on 15 April 1938, at the age of forty-six.

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