Martín Adán

Martín Adán, whose real name was Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was born on 27 October 1908 in Lima. A pupil at a school in Barranco and then at the German-Peruvian Alexander von Humboldt school, he studied at the San Marcos and Catholic universities; it was José Carlos Mariátegui who suggested his pen name. A poet, he later published La rosa de la espinela, Travesía de extramares and La piedra absoluta, knew poverty and alcoholism, spent his last years in nursing homes and died on 29 January 1985.

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• NovelThe Cardboard HouseLa casa de cartónMartín Adán · 1928Literature