Eduardo Chirinos

Eduardo Alejandro Chirinos Arrieta (4 April 1960 – 17 February 2016) was a Peruvian professor of literature at the University of Montana, and a poet. He received the Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana in 2001.

Career

Eduardo Chirinos was born in Lima, in 1960. He studied Hispanic linguistics, acquiring a bachelor's degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a PhD in literature at Rutgers University.

He was a professor in the department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana, specializing in Latin American Literature, Modernism, Avant-Garde, Spanish and Latin American Contemporary Poetry.[1][2]

References
  1. "University of Montana website". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  2. "Falleció Eduardo Chirinos, destacado poeta peruano". El Comercio (in Spanish). 19 February 2016.


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