Abraham Valdelomar

On November 1, 1919, he suffered an accident while on a tour in Ayacucho, Huamanga province, that consequently caused his death two days later.

On November 3, 1919, he died as a result of an accident in Ayacucho at the age of 33.

Abraham Valdelomar’s literary works continued to be published even after his death in 1919.

Pedro Abraham Valdelomar Pinto was born on April 27, 1888, to Anfiloquio Valdelomar Fajardo and Carolina Pinto.

He received primary education at the Municipal School No. 3 of Chincha in the city of Pisco.

Between 1900 and 1904, he attended the National College of Our Lady of Guadalupe de Lima.

From 1905 to 1906, he was enrolled at the University Mayor of San Marcos. He left the university in 1906 to begin employment with ‘Aplausos y Silbidos (Applauses and Whistles)’ magazine as a draftsman.

He founded the ‘Billinghurst University Club’ in order to promote the presidential candidature of Guillermo Billinghurst.

In 1903, he, along with Manuel A. Bedoya, founded the magazine ’La Guadalupana Idea’.

In 1906, he started contributing caricatures and poems to a number of illustrated magazines and periodicals, and soon abandoned university life completely to pursue a career in journalism.

He served as the artistic director of ‘Aplausos y Silbidos (Applauses and Whistles)’.

His first poem, ’Ha Vivido Mi Alma (My Soul Has Lived)’, was published in the magazine ‘Contemporaneos’ on July 15, 1909.

His first stories were published in ‘Peruana’, a variety magazine, in 1910.

His first poem, ’Ha Vivido Mi Alma (My Soul Has Lived)’ was published on July 15, 1909.

His novels ’La Ciudad de los Tisicos (The City of Consumptives)’ and ‘La Ciudad Muerta (The Dead City)’ were published as a series in newspapers in 1910. These two novels are considered to be modern writings.

He wrote ‘Cronicas de Roma (Chronicles of Rome)’ while he was in Rome in 1913.

‘La Mariscala (The Female Marshal)’ is a fictional biography of President Agustin Gamarra’s wife, Dona Francisca Zubiaga. The biography was published in 1914.

‘Ensayo Sobre la Psicologia del Gallinazo (Essay on the Psychology of Gallinazo)’ was published in 1917. This essay offers his brutally honest view of Lima.