What is Enrique Verástegui?
{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Enrique Verástegui | honorific_suffix = | image = Enrique_Verástegui.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Enrique Verástegui in 2011 | birth_name = | birth_date = 24 April 1950 | birth_place = [[Lima]], [[Perú]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2018|07|27|1950|4|24}} | death_place = Lima, Perú | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | alma_mater = [[National University of San Marcos]] | occupation = Economist, poet, essayist, philosopher, storyteller, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, musician, watercolorist, physicist, logician and mathematician |awards=[[Guggenheim Fellowship]] |spouse=Carmen Ollé<ref>[https://larepublica.pe/cultural/1289243-enrique-verastegui-temporada-arequipa-testimonio Enrique Verástegui, una temporada en Arequipa (testimonio)] {{in lang|es}}</ref> |children=Vanessa Verástegui Ollé }} '''Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez ''' (24 April 1950 &ndash; 27 July 2018), was a Peruvian poet, physicist, philosopher and mathematician. He was born in [[Lima]]. In 1975 he recorded his poems for the [[Library of Congress|Library of Congress of the United States]] and worked for [[El Colegio de México]].<ref>[https://www.ecured.cu/Enrique_Ver%C3%A1stegui Enrique Verástegui.] {{in lang|es}}</ref> On 1976 he received the [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].<ref>[http://www.serperuano.com/2017/04/enrique-verastegui/ Enrique Fidel Verástegui] {{in lang|es}}</ref> In 1978, representing the [[Peru]]vian community, he reads his poems before the tomb of [[César Vallejo]], which earned him the congratulations of [[Julio Ramón Ribeyro]], consul of Peru to [[UNESCO]]. Verástegui died in Lima on 27 July 2018 from a [[heart attack]], aged 68.<ref>[https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Peruvian-Rebel-Poet-Enrique-Verastegui-Dead-at-68-20180728-0012.html Peruvian Rebel Poet Enrique Verastegui Dies Aged 68]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Verastegui, Enrique}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:De