Carlos Germán Belli

Carlos Germán Belli was born in Lima, Peru to Italian parents in 1927. He earned his doctorate from the National University of San Marcos. He is known for his poetic oeuvre in which he combines the everyday Peruvian lexicon with the forms and styles of Spanish Golden Age and Renaissance poetry. His poetry books include Poemas (1958), ¡Oh Hada Cibernetica! (1962), Sextinas y otros poemas (1970), El buen mudar (1987), Trechos del Itinerario: 1958–1997 (1998), and Poemas escogidos / Selected Poems: 1958–2006 (2008). He has received Peru’s National Poetry Prize and two Guggenheim Foundation Awards for Poetry. He was awarded the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize by Chile’s National Council of Culture and the Arts in 2006, and he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 2007.