BIOGRAPHY OF CÉSAR VALLEJO

He was a Peruvian poet and writer. He is

considered one of the greatest
innovators of the poetry of the twentieth
century and the greatest exponent of the
letters in his country.
BIRTH OF CÉSAR VALLEJO

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was

born on March 16, 1892 in Santiago de
Chuco, a town in a high area of the
department of La Libertad, in Peru.
THE PARENTS OF CÉSAR VALLEJO

Son of Francisco de Paula Vallejo Benítez

and María de los Santos Mendoza
Gurrionero, was the youngest of eleven
brothers;
His parents wanted to dedicate him to
the priesthood, which he in his early
childhood accepted very willingly;
hence, there are so many biblical and
liturgical references in his first verses.
STUDIES MADE OF CÉSAR VALLEJO

His primary studies were carried out in the

School Center No. 271 of Santiago de
Chuco, but from April 1905 to 1909 he
studied high school at the National
School San Nicolás de Huamachuco.
In 1910 he enrolled in the Faculty of
Letters of the National University of Trujillo,
but due to economic problems returns to
his village, with the purpose of working
and saving to continue later his studies.
UNIVERSITY STUDIES

He traveled to Lima in 1911 to enroll in the

Faculty of Medicine of San Fernando, but
again left the university cloister for
economic reasons or perhaps for
disappointment of that career.
WIFE OF CÉSAR VALLEJO

In 1927 he met Georgette Marie Philippart

Travers in Paris, an 18-year-old girl who
lived with her mother in an apartment in
front of the hotel where she was staying.
OCCUPATION OF CESAR VALLEJO

Poet, essayist, narrator, journalist and

educator
NOTABLE WORKS OF CESAR VALLEJO

Los heraldos negros (1918), poems

Trilce (1922), poems
Scales (1923), narrations
Fabla salvaje (1923), short novel
The Tungsten (1931), novel
Paco Yunque (1931), story
Russia in 1931 (1931), essays
Spain, remove from my this chalice (1939),
poems
Human Poems (1939), poems
DEATH OF CÉSAR VALLEJO

April 15, 1938 (46 years old) Paris, France

At the beginning of 1938 he works as a
professor of Language and Literature in
Paris, but in March he suffers from
physical exhaustion. On March 24, he was
hospitalized due to an unknown illness
(later it became known that he was
reactivating an old malaria that he
suffered as a child) and entered into a
crisis on April 7 and 8.
Thank you……