On April 27, 1888, the writer Pedro Abraham Valdelomar Pinto, considered one of the founders

of contemporary Peruvian literature, was born in Ica.

He was a storyteller, poet, journalist, cartoonist, essayist and playwright. At an early age he
moved with his family to Pisco, where he attended primary school and completed them in
Chincha. In 1900 he moved to Lima where he attended high school at the Nuestra Señora de
Guadalupe school and founded the school newspaper "La Idea Guadalupana". He entered the
Faculty of Letters of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

He interrupted his studies to become a journalist, working as a cartoonist in the magazines

Aplausos y Silbidos, Monos y Monadas, Fray Kbezón, Actualidades, Cinema and Gil Blas. His
first verses, in modernist style, appeared in the magazine Contemporánea in 1909 and his first
stories appeared the following year in the magazines Varieties, Ilustración Peruana and
Balnearios. His two novellas "The City of the Tiffs" and "The Dead City", both published in 1911,
brought him popularity.

He was director of the Official Gazette El Peruano during the government of Guillermo
Billinghurst. In 1913 he traveled to Italy where he was secretary of the Peruvian legation. From
Rome he wrote his "Chronicles of Rome" for the Lima newspaper La Nación.

He returned to Peru and worked for the newspaper La Prensa, his articles being known under
the pseudonym "Conde de Lemos". He stood out as a writer with his book of short stories "El
Caballero Carmelo", where he narrates part of his childhood experiences in Pisco and is
considered the beginning of modernity in Peruvian narrative. In 1914 two of his most famous
stories appeared: "The Flight of the Condors" and "The Eyes of Judas".

In 1916 he led the Colónida literary movement and published the magazine of the same name.
he had frequent meetings in fashionable places such as the Palais Concert confectionery. His
flashy "dandy" attire and arrogant attitudes earned him some enemies. But, its literary quality
prevailed. He famously said: "Peru is Lima, Lima is the Jirón de la Unión, the Jirón de la Unión is
the Palais Concert and the Palais Concert is me".

He was elected as a deputy to the Regional Congress of the Center, died in Ayacucho on
November 3, 1919 due to an accidental fall that caused a fracture of the spine. He was only 31
years old when he died.