Cesar Calvo
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Cesar Calvo was a Peruvian poet and writer, author of The Three Halves of Ino Moxo: Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon (Las Tres Mitades de Ino Moxo y otros Brujos de la Amazonía), Pedestal for No One (Pedestal Para Nadie), and Sceptre of the Youth (El Cetro de Los Jovenes)[1]. He is considered important in the literature of Peru and Amazonia, and his works have been translated into English and Italian[2].
Calvo was part of the "Generation of Sixty," a group of prominent Peruvian poets that came of age in the 1960s. He was born in Iquitos, Peru in 1940, son of a Peruvian painter.
As a writer, Calvo's works deal with indigenous cultures of Peru and the struggle for social justice.
Calvo died in August 2000.
[edit] References
- ^ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Calvo
- ^ César Calvo Soriano nació en Lima el 26 de julio de 1940
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