César Atahualpa Rodríguez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

César Atahualpa Rodríguez

poet

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1889

Place of Birth: Arequipa, Peru

Date of Death: 12-Mar-1972

Profession: poet, librarian, novelist, essayist

Nationality: Peru

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About César Atahualpa Rodríguez

  • César "Atahualpa" Rodriguez Olcay (Arequipa, August 26, 1889 – March 12, 1972) was a Peruvian poet; a self taught, cultural writer.Born César Augusto Rodríguez Olcay, he took on the pseudonym, "Atahualpa", after the Arequipan poet Percy Gibson.
  • During the period of 1908-1913, he spent a lot of time with José María Eguren, Manuel González Prada and Abraham Valdelomar, writers of stature who praised his work and considered him "la nueva expresión de la lírica nacional”- the new expression of the national lyric. At the end of 1916, along with Percy Gibson, Rodriguez founded the group "El Aquelarre" and published four issues of a magazine which bore the same name, initiatives that were an incentive for Arequipa intellectual life.
  • "El Aquelarre" appeared around the same time as that the movement "Colónida" in Lima, the group "Norte" of Trujillo, and "La Tea" of Puno.
  • However, the influence of "El Aquelarre" was especially Modernistic, Symbolistic and Parnassianistic.
  • (See Parnassianism) In 1917, he was appointed director of the public library of Arequipa, a post he held until 1955. In 1926, Rodriguez's first book, La torre de las paradojas, was published by La Editorial Nuestra América de Buenos Aires.
  • The book preceded one vast work in prose, as in verse and essay.
  • According to Arequipa literary critic Titus Cáceres Cuadros, "Poetry of Rodriguez had enough social emotion and a strong regional accent." In 1966, Congress decorated him with the highest laurels: la Orden del Sol del Perú y la Orden del Congreso, and the municipality of Arequipa awarded him the city gold medal.
  • In the same year, Rodriguez published Sonatas en tono de Silencio, edited by the Ministry of Public Education.
  • Centrally themed on the search for solitude as a means to become the primary source of his philosophical writings, the book brought together poems that are representative of the sophistication of the poet.

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