Marco Martos Carrera


Marco Martos Carrera is a Peruvian poet and the President of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua. It's assumed from critics to be one of the most important persons of the Peruvian "60's generation". Critics also appoints that he uses a simple way of expression with an ironic way to project the life. We can find in his work topics like 'loneliness' and 'existentialism'.
He received a PhD from the National University of San Marcos in Lima, became a professor there as well, and now is the Director of the Graduate School of Humanities.
He won in 1969, the Nacional Award of Poetry. His poetry had been translated and published in different languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Works

Poetry