Marco Martos Carrera

Marco Martos Carrera (born 29 November 1942 in Piura, Peru) is a Peruvian poet, literary critic and university professor. He is considered one of the leading representatives of the Peruvian "Generation of the 60s" in poetry. He has served as President of the Peruvian Academy of Language and Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the National University of San Marcos.

Biography 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.

Poetry 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.

Works Poetry 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)

Literary criticism Las palabras de Trilce (with Elsa Villanueva, 1988) Llave de los sueños. Antología poética de la promoción 1945–1950 (1993) Entre milenio y milenio, en la víspera. Antología del cuento peruano 1950–1997 (1997)

Awards and honors Premio Nacional de Fomento a la Cultura – Poesía "José Santos Chocano" (1969) Premio La Casona 2009, National University of San Marcos Medalla de Lima, Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima (18 January 2017)