Abraham Valdelomar

Pedro Abraham Valdelomar Pinto was born in Ica on 27 April 1888, the sixth son of Anfiloquio Valdelomar and Carolina Pinto, and grew up in Pisco, where his family settled in 1892. In 1906 he left the University of San Marcos to draw and write in the Lima magazines, and signed his chronicles with the name Count of Lemos. A diplomat in Rome in 1913, he sent chronicles from there to the newspaper La Nación. In 1916 he founded a literary magazine that ran to only four issues but gave its name to a movement. Elected in 1919 as a deputy to the Regional Congress of the Centre, he died on 3 November of the same year, aged thirty-one.

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• Short storiesEl caballero CarmeloAbraham Valdelomar · 1918not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain