Alfredo Pérez Alencart

(born in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, 1962), is a Peruvian-Spanish poet and essayist, as well as a professor at the University of Salamanca since 1987. He was the secretary of the Poetics Chair Fray Luis de León of the Universidad Pontificia between 1992 and 1998 and is, since 1998, the coordinator of “Encounters of Iberoamerican Poets”, which is organized by the Foundation “Salamanca, City of Culture and Knowledge”.

He has published the following books of poetry:

- La voluntad enhechizada (2001)
- Madre Selva (2002)
- Ofrendas al tercer hijo de Amparo Bidon (2003)
- Pájaros bajo la piel del alma (2006)
- Hombres trabajando (2007)
- Cristo del Alma (2009)
- Estación de las tormentas (2009)
- Savia de las Antípodas (2009)
- Aquí hago justicia (2010)
- Cartografía de las revelaciones (2011)
- Margens de um mundo ou Mosaico Lusitano (2011)
- Prontuario de Infinito (2012)
- La piedra en la lengua (2013)
- Memorial de Tierraverde (2014)
- El sol de los ciegos (2014)
- Lo más oscuro (2015)
- Los éxodos, los exilios (2015)
- El pie en el estribo (2016)
- Ante el mar, callé (2017)
- Barro del Paraíso (2919).

Some of his poetry has been translated into 50 languages and for his entire oeuvre he has received the International Poetry Prize Vicente Gerbasi (Venezuela, 2009), the Jorge Guillén Poetry Prize (Spain, 2012), the Humberto Peregrino Prize (Brasil, 2015), the Andrés Quintanilla Buey Prize (España, 2017) and the Mihai Eminescu Medal (Rumanía, 2017), among others.