César Vallejo (1892-1938)

Stephen M. Hart is the Founder and Director of the Institute of César Vallejo Studies at University College London, dedicated to the study of Vallejo’s life and work. In 2022 it collaborated with the University of Oxford in order to hold the 5^th “Vallejo Siempre” Congress in which more than thirty papers on Vallejo’s work were delivered (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2022/oct/vallejo-siempre-5th-international-congress-ucl-university-oxford)

Hart’s research on César Vallejo includes César Vallejo: Selected Poems (London: Duckworth-Bristol Classical Press, 2000); César Vallejo. Autógrafos olvidados, Colección Textos Serie B: Textos 44 (London: Boydell and Brewer; & Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2003); César Vallejo: A Literary Biography (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013); ‘Una lectura política de Trilce de César Vallejo’, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Año XLIX, No. 97 (2023), 377-395; and ‘César Vallejo: la dialéctica de una muerte política’, in César Vallejo: poesía reunida: edición conmemorativa (Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2025), pp. 269-289. 

Hart has conducted investigations of the various hypotheses relating to Vallejo’s mysterious death. He was excited to learn that Luis Llosa is currently making a film about Vallejo’s life. For more information (https://elcomercio.pe/luces/cine/como-se-filma-la-vida-de-cesar-vallejo-asi-es-el-rodaje-secreto-de-la-pelicula-que-revive-al-poeta-en-lima-cronica-noticia