Carlos Germán Belli
Carlos Germán Belli de La Torre (15 September 1927 – 10 August 2024) was a Peruvian poet of Italian parentage. He also translated American, French, Italian, and Brazilian poetry into Spanish. Belli won the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award in 2006, which was granted by Chile's National Council of Culture and the Arts.
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- Name
- Carlos Germán Belli
- Birth Name
- Carlos Germán Belli de La Torre
- Born
- 15 September 1927
- Died
- 10 August 2024
- Occupation
- Poet, translator
- Nationality
- Peru
- Fields
- poetry · journalism · literary translation
- Movements
- Generation of '50 (Perú)
- Education
- National University of San Marcos
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award
- Languages
- Spanish
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Carlos Germán Belli de La Torre (15 September 1927 – 10 August 2024) was a Peruvian poet of Italian parentage. He also translated American, French, Italian, and Brazilian poetry into Spanish. Belli won the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award in 2006, which was granted by Chile's National Council of Culture and the Arts.
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Belli was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. He died on 10 August 2024, at the age of 96.
Carlos Germán Belli studied at National University of San Marcos. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is poetry, journalism and literary translation. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are poetry. Work by Carlos Germán Belli is recorded in the collections of Memoria Chilena. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award.
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• Name — Carlos Germán Belli • Birth Name — Carlos Germán Belli de La Torre • Born — 15 September 1927 • Died — 10 August 2024 • Occupation — Poet, translator
Work
Work
• Poemas (1958) • Dentro & fuera (1960) • Oh Hada Cibernética (1961) • El pie sobre el cuello. Obra reunida (1967) • Sextinas y otros poemas (1970) • En alabanza al bolo alimenticio (1979) • Boda de pluma y letra (1985) • Más que señora humana (1986) • Los talleres del tiempo (1992) • Salve, spes! (2000) • En las hospitalarias estrofas (2001) • La miscelánea íntima (2003) • El alternado paso de los hados (2006) • Sextinas villanela y baladas (2007)
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Lima.
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Surquillo.
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Work published in anthologies
• Ricardo Silva Santisteban (anthologist): Antología general de la traducción en el Perú (General anthology of translation in Peru), volume VI. Lima, Universidad Ricardo Palma - Editorial Universitaria, 2016.
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- “Carlos Germán Belli”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5042127: Carlos Germán Belli
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scholarly publication
- «Amanuense», poema de Carlos Germán Belli, Mercurio Peruano. Revista de Humanidades, 2025
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«Amanuense», poema de Carlos Germán Belli, Mercurio Peruano. Revista de Humanidades, 2025Crossref registry
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