Javier Heraud Pérez (1942–1963) was a

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

vian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and member of the

Ejército de Liberación Nacional The National Liberation Army (Spanish: ''Ejército de Liberación Nacional'', ELN) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict,

(ELN). In his early life he studied at Markham College and later he continued his studies at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In January 1963, a group led by the 21-year-old poet Javier Heraud and Alain Elías crossed through Bolivia, where they picked up weapons, and entered southern Peru. Plagued by

Leishmaniasis Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by parasites of the trypanosome genus ''Leishmania''. It is generally spread through the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, ''Phlebotomus'' and ''Lutzomyia'', and occurs most freq ...

infection however, the 15 member team decided to enter the city of

Puerto Maldonado Puerto Maldonado () is a city in southeastern Peru in the Amazon rainforest west of the Bolivian border, located at the confluence of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios rivers. The latter river joins the Madeira River as a tributary of the Amazo ...

to seek out medical supplies. The local police were warned of the group's advance, and on May 15 Heraud was shot in the chest and killed while he drifted past the town in a

dugout canoe A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. ''Monoxylon'' (''μονόξυλον'') (pl: ''monoxyla'') is Greek – ''mono-'' (single) + '' ξύλον xylon'' (t ...

.Ayacucho gains some important enemies
/ref>

Publications

* ''El río'' (1960) * ''El viaje'' (1961) * ''Estación reunida'' (1961)

Work published in anthologies

* Ricardo Silva Santisteban (anthologist): ''Antología general de la traducción en el Perú'' (General anthology of translation in Peru). Lima, Universidad Ricardo Palma - Editorial Universitaria, 2016.

References

External links

*

at "Literature peruana"

''Time'' (May 31, 1963). 1942 births 1963 deaths Writers from Lima 20th-century Peruvian poets Peruvian male poets Peruvian translators Peruvian people of French descent National University of San Marcos alumni Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni Peruvian communists 20th-century translators English–Spanish translators {{peru-translator-stub