Abelardo SÁNCHEZ-LEÓN

Abelardo Sánchez León was born in Lima in 1947. He studied Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and did his Master's degree at the University of Nanterre, Paris X. Until recently he was a Senior Lecturer at the PUCP, in the Department of Communications. He has worked at DESCO and was the editor of Quetrabajo magazine. In 1980 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1989 a Fulbright Scholarship. He is one of the main representatives of the generation of poets of the seventies and in 2018 the Lumen publishing house published a collection of his poems entitled Poemas reunidos. Later on he published Soldado de Dios (Lumen (2019) and a new poetry book El tumulto del sueño (PEISA, 2022). He has also published five novels, including La soledad del nadador (PEISA, 1996), El tartamudo (Alfaguara, 2002) and El hombre de la azotea (Alfaguara, 2008), as well as books of non-fiction: La balada del gol perdido (PEISA, 1993, 1998) and El viaje del salmón (PEISA, 2005). This year he has published with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú the long essay Torrentes en pugna: Mario Vargas Llosa y Miguel Gutiérrez. A fan of football and swimming. He supports Alianza Lima.

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