Enrique Verástegui
Fidel Verástegui Peláez (24 April 1950 – 27 July 2018) was a Peruvian author and mathematician. He was a member of Movimiento Hora Zero with the poets Jorge Pimentel, Juan Ramírez Ruiz, Jorge Nájar, Enriqueta Belevan and Carmen Ollé. He was born in Lima but grew up in the city of San Vicente de Cañete.
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Enrique Verástegui
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- Name
- Enrique Verástegui
- Born
- 24 April 1950
- Birthplace
- Lima, Peru
- Died
- 27 July 2018
- Education
- National University of San Marcos
- Occupation
- Economist, poet, essayist, philosopher, storyteller, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, musician, watercolorist, physicist, logician and mathematician
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Spouse
- Carmen Ollé
- Full name
- Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez.
- Nationality
- Peru.
- Fields
- essay.
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Fidel Verástegui Peláez (24 April 1950 – 27 July 2018) was a Peruvian author and mathematician. He was a member of Movimiento Hora Zero with the poets Jorge Pimentel, Juan Ramírez Ruiz, Jorge Nájar, Enriqueta Belevan and Carmen Ollé. He was born in Lima but grew up in the city of San Vicente de Cañete.
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Enrique Verástegui (1950–2018) was an economist, essayist and mathematician, among other activities, of Peruvian nationality. The economist was born Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez in Lima and died in Lima. Enrique Verástegui was educated at National University of San Marcos.
The work spans essay. Languages used include Spanish. Honours include Guggenheim Fellowship.
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He finished his secondary studies at G.U.E. José Buenaventura Sepúlveda in that same city. After moving to Lima, he studied economics, administration and accounting at the National University of San Marcos. In 1975 he recorded his poems for the Library of Congress of the United States and worked for El Colegio de México. In 1976 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1977, he co-founded the Segunda Etapa of Movimiento Hora Zero in Paris with José Carlos Rodríguez and André Laude and published his book The Motor of Desire (El motor del deseo). In 1978, representing the Peruvian community, he read his poems at the tomb of César Vallejo, which earned him the congratulations of Julio Ramón Ribeyro, the Peruvian consul to UNESCO. In 1992 he published his novel trilogy, entitled Terceto de Lima. In 1999 he wrote Pro-total Apology: Essay on Stephen Hawkings, the Peruvian equivalent of the Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, which suggests original developments of algebra. He also invented the Scientific Research Method of pre-duction, which is superior to induction and deduction. He also published El Modelo del Teorema (The model of the theorem).
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• Name — Enrique Verástegui • Born — 24 April 1950 • Birthplace — Lima, Peru • Died — 27 July 2018 • Place of death — Lima, Peru • Education — National University of San Marcos • Occupation — Economist, poet, essayist, philosopher, storyteller, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, musician, watercolorist, physicist, logician and mathematician • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship • Spouse — Carmen Ollé • Children — Vanessa Verástegui Ollé Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez (24 April 1950 – 27 July 2018) was a Peruvian author and mathematician. He was a member of Movimiento Hora Zero with the poets Jorge Pimentel, Juan Ramírez Ruiz, Jorge Nájar, Enriqueta Belevan and Carmen Ollé. He was born in Lima but grew up in the city of San Vicente de Cañete. He finished his secondary studies at G.U.E. José Buenaventura Sepúlveda in that same city. After moving to Lima, he studied economics, administration and accounting at the National University of San Marcos. In 1975 he recorded his poems for the Library of Congress of the United States and worked for El Colegio de México. In 1976 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1977, he co-founded the Segunda Etapa of Movimiento Hora Zero in Paris with José Carlos Rodríguez and André Laude and published his book The Motor of Desire (El motor del deseo). In 1978, representing the Peruvian community, he read his poems at the tomb of César Vallejo, which earned him the congratulations of Julio Ramón Ribeyro, the Peruvian consul to UNESCO. In 1992 he published his novel trilogy, entitled Terceto de Lima. In 1999 he wrote Pro-total Apology: Essay on Stephen Hawkings, the Peruvian equivalent of the Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, which suggests original developments of algebra. He also invented the Scientific Research Method of pre-duction, which is superior to induction and deduction. He also published El Modelo del Teorema (The model of the theorem).
Theater
Theater
• El exorcismo de Bellmer. • Agonizar: homenaje a César Vallejo
Music and ballet
Music and ballet
• Proyecto para una òpera en New York. • En los sótanos más cochinos de la belleza.
Art
Art
• La expansión matemàtica. (Arte cognitivo).
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Origins and background
The following is established of origins and background. Verástegui died in 2018 at Lima. It is also recorded that enrique Verástegui was born in 1950 at Lima. Recorded at birth as Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez.
Theory of Poetry
• El análisis de la poesía.
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- 1.Enrique Verástegui, una temporada en Arequipa (testimonio)
- 2.Reconocido poeta peruano Enrique Verástegui falleció a los 68 años
- 3.ENTREVISTA A ENRIQUE VERÁSTEGUI POR RAÚL HERAUD.
- 4.La poesía peruana de luto: Falleció Enrique Verástegui
- 5.Enrique Fidel Verástegui
- 6.Entrevista a Enrique Verástegui por Paul Guillén
- 7.Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez, referencias
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