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Xavier Abril

Died in 1990

Xavier Abril de Vivero was born in Lima on 4 November 1905. Having left for Spain in 1926, he attended for a year the courses of the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, contributed to the journal Amauta, joined the Surrealist group in Paris, co-edited in 1931 a trilingual journal published in Amsterdam and founded in 1933 a journal with Rafael Alberti. Back in Peru after ten years in Europe, he then settled in Montevideo, where he was cultural attaché at the Peruvian embassy from 1958, and died there on 1 January 1990.

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