César Vallejo: A Better Poet than Neruda?

Continuing with our series Writers in Search of a Reader made possible by the collaboration of Instituto Cervantes London, we decided to present one of the greatest poets of the last century in any language. A virtually unknown bard outside Latin America: the national poet of Peru, César Vallejo. The programme was recorded in front of a live audience with Vallejo's biographer Professor Stephen Hart from University City London and also Vallejo's best and most comprehensive translator Valentin Gianuzzi from Manchester University. And if you want to know why Vallejo is so important in the Spanish speaking world you better click and listen. With Ignacio Peyró and Juan ToledoRead about Vallejo's biography by Professor Hart and taste some extracts from the translation of Vallejo's entire poetic oeuvre by Valentino Gianuzzi and the late Michael smith