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Manuel Scorza

Died in 1983

Manuel Scorza was born on 9 September 1928 in Lima. A student member of the Poets of the People, close to the Aprista party, he opposed Odría's dictatorship in 1949, saw his first collection seized and left for a long exile. In 1956 he joined the Movimiento Comunal, supported the peasant revolt of Cerro de Pasco and wrote its manifestos. Later settled in Paris, he taught at the École normale supérieure and died on 27 November 1983 in the crash of an Avianca plane near Madrid.

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