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César Moro was born in Lima, Peru, in 1903, where he died in 1956. He was a painter as well as a poet and began showing his work as early as 1926. In 1928 he left Peru for France, where he became involved in the activities of the first surrealist group in Paris and adopted French as language for poetic expression. He returned to Lima in 1933, where he carried out several significant projects with his friend and collaborator Emilio Adolfo Westphalen. He left Peru once again in 1935 and for the next ten years he lived in Mexico, where he engaged in such projects as the Fourth International Surrealist Exhibition (with André Breton and Wolfgang Paalen) and, significantly, wrote the largest and most innovative part of his oeuvre. In 1948 Moro returned to Lima, where he continued to write and to paint until the end of his life. We owe to his friend, the French poet and critic, André Coyné, the posthumous safeguarding and organizing of this exceptional poet’s work.
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