Literature of the Americas Literature of the Americas 2541-7894 2542-243X IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2024-17-400-411 Review Article Articles Cultural Diplomacy: César Vallejo Evening at IWL RAS 2024 Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article provides an overview of the Panel Discussion dedicated to the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, which was co-organized by the Embassy of Peru and the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences on October 21, 2024 in the IWL RAS. The guest of honor of the Institute of World Literature was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Peru to the Russian Federation Juan Genaro Del Campo Rodríguez, whose report opened the panel. The discussion brought together Russian and foreign researchers from the Embassy of Peru, the IWL RAS, Autonomous University of Madrid, and the University of Manchester. The papers covered various aspects of César Vallejo’s life and work: biographical details, analysis of his poetry and prose, his Soviet contacts, three visits to the USSR, Russian travelogues, interaction with Vladimir Mayakovsky, correspondence with F.V. Kelin, etc. The discussion became a notable event in Russian academic life, gathering about a hundred listeners and, undoubtedly, made a significant contribution to the study of César Vallejo work, to the history of the 20th century Peruvian literature, Soviet-Peruvian and Soviet- Latin American literary connections.   1. Girin 2005 — Girin, Yuri. “Cesar Vallejo.” Istoriia literatur Latinskoi Ameriki [History of Latin American Literatures]: in 5 vols. Vol. 5. Moscow: IWL RAS Publ., 2005: 16–57. (In Russ.) 2. Girin 2011 — Girin, Yuri. “Cesar Vallejo / Vicente Huidobro: Dva stvora latinoamerikanskogo avangardizma” [“Cesar Vallejo / Vicente Huidobro: Two Greats of the Latin American Avant-garde”]. Latinskaia Amerika, no. 11 (2011): 84–96. (In Russ.) 3. Girin 1992 — Girin, Yuri. “‘Itak, mne ne vyrazit' zhizni inache, kak smert'iu…’ K stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Sesara Val'ekho” [“‘In Short, I Have Only My Death to Express My Life…’ On Cesar Vallejo’s Birth Centenary”]. Latinskaia Amerika, no. 56 (1992): 91–97. (In Russ.) 4. Girin 2002 — Girin, Yuri. “Mir Sesara Val'ekho. K 110-letiiu velikogo peruanskogo poeta i 80-letiiu knigi ‘Tril'se’” [“World of Cesar Vallejo. On the 110th Great Peruvian Poet’s Centenary and 80th Anniversary of Trilce”]. Latinskaia Amerika, no. 3 (2002): 93–105. (In Russ.) 5. Popova 2022 — Popova, Victoria. “‘El escritor no tiene quien le escriba’: la correspondencia soviética de César Vallejo.” Literature of the Americas, no. 13 (2022): 248–281. 6. Popova 2017 — Popova, Victoria. “Razmyshleniia u sten Kremlia o Russkoi revoliutsii: Sesar Val'ekho i SSSR” [“Reflections on Foot of the Kremlin on the Russian Revolution: César Vallejo and the USSR”]. Literatura dvukh Amerik, no. 3 (2017): 67–89. (In Russ.) 7. Popova 2023 — Popova, Victoria. “‘Vol'fram’ Sesara Val'ekho: 90 let spustia” [“‘El Tungsteno’ by César Vallejo: 90 Years After”]. Literatura dvukh Amerik, no. 15 (2023): 308–318. (In Russ.) 8. Terekhina 2017 — Terekhina, Vera. “Maiakovskii v Latinskoi Amerike (1930–1940)” [“Mayakovsky in Latin America (1930–1940)”]. Literatura dvukh Amerik, no. 3 (2017): 288–306. (In Russ.)