Marco Martos Carrera

• Birth Name — Marco Martos Carrera • Born — 29 November 1942 • Birthplace — Piura, Peru • Occupation — Poet, literary critic, university professor • Education — National University of San Marcos • Notable Works — Casa nuestra (1965) Al leve reino (1996) Sílabas de la música (2002) • Awards — Premio Nacional de Fomento a la Cultura – Poesía (1969) Premio La Casona (2009)

Martos earned a doctorate in Literature from the National University of San Marcos in 1974. He became a professor there and served as Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences during the periods 2004–2007 and 2010–2013. He was also Director of the Graduate School of Humanities. He was inducted as a full member of the Peruvian Academy of Language on 2 September 1999, with a lecture titled La poesía de César Vallejo: Tradición e innovación. He served as President of the Academy from 2005 to 2014, and again from 2018 until the election of his successor Eduardo Francisco Hopkins.

Martos is regarded as one of the most important voices of the Peruvian Generation of the 60s. His first three collections — Casa nuestra (1965), Cuaderno de quejas y contentamientos (1969) and Donde no se ama (1974) — received unanimous critical acclaim. He has published more than 25 poetry collections, 18 of which were gathered in Poesía junta (2012). His poems have been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Hungarian and Chinese.

• Casa nuestra (Lima: Ediciones de la Rama Florida, 1965) • Cuaderno de quejas y contentamientos (Lima: CMB, 1969) • Donde no se ama (Lima: Milla Batres, 1974) • Carpe diem (Lima: Haraui, 1979) • Carpe diem / El silbo de los aires amorosos (Lima: CEPES, 1981) • Muestra de arte rupestre (Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1990) • Cabellera de Berenice (Trujillo: SEA-Municipalidad Provincial, 1991) • Al leve reino. Obra poética 1965–1996 (Lima: Peisa, 1996) • El mar de las tinieblas (Lima: El Caballo Rojo-Atenea, 1999) • Sílabas de la música (Lima: LIRSUR, 2002) • El monje de Praga (Lima: Hipocampo, 2003) • Jaque perpetuo (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2003) • Dondoneo (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2004) • Aunque es de noche (Lima: Hipocampo, 2006) • Poesía junta (2012) • Caligrafía china (2014) • Laberinto de amor (2014) • Máscaras de Roma (2015) • Musas del celuloide (2016) • El espíritu de los ríos (2017) • El piano negro (2018) • Mar del Perú (2022) • Canción del amante de la libertad (Madrid: Sial Pigmalión, 2025)