Higgins, James, 1939-2021

James Higgins is remembered as an outstanding scholar of Latin American literature, Professor at the University of Liverpool (1988), and recipient of the Order of Simón Bolívar conferred by the National University of Trujillo in Peru (2014). He revolutionised the discipline of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom and, in works such as Visión del hombre y de la vida en las últimas obras poéticas de César Vallejo (1970), The Poet in Peru (1982), and César Vallejo en su poesía (1989), he consolidated his reputation as the trailblazer of the analysis of Latin America’s most important poet, César Vallejo (1892–1938).

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