Cesar vallejo biography in english translation

Peruvian writer

For the football club, see Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo. For the volleyball club, see CV Universidad César Vallejo. For the university, see César Vallejo University.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vallejo and the second or maternal family name is Mendoza.

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist.

Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language.^[1]Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante".

The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Truji