José Santos Chocano

José Santos Chocano was born in Lima on 14 May 1875 and entered the University of San Marcos at fourteen. Imprisoned at twenty for his political activities, he then went to Madrid, where his poetry was recognised, and held diplomatic posts in Colombia and Spain. He advised Pancho Villa in Mexico, served the dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera in Guatemala and corresponded with Woodrow Wilson. Close to President Leguía, he was honoured in 1922 by the Peruvian government as poet of America. He spent his last years in Santiago de Chile, where he died in 1934.

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• PoetryAlma AméricaJosé Santos Chocano · 1906not translated into EnglishLiterature