Carlos Oquendo de Amat

Carlos Oquendo de Amat was born on 17 April 1905 in the Puno region; his father, a doctor, had introduced cinema there. A scholarship student in Lima, he attended the Guadalupe school and San Marcos University, which he left, and wrote his first verses at the National Library. A disciple of Mariátegui and a communist activist in the south of the country and in Bolivia, he was persecuted and left, already ill, for Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, France and Spain, where tuberculosis carried him off on 6 March 1936.

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• Poetry5 Meters of Poems5 metros de poemasCarlos Oquendo de Amat · 1927Literature