Pen name Poeta Viandante Name Beker Fabian Nationality Peruvian and Italian | Language Spaniah and Italian Occupation poet and writer Role Poet | |
Education Diploma in pedagogy and education | ||
Beker Fabian or the Waufarer Poet (namesake of the famous poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer), in Peru Beker Simón Fabián De Lao, is a Peruvian poet and writer and naturalized Italian. He is active in Peru, where he promotes diffusion of literature among young people, with literary events and poetry contests in the schools of the Andean and Amazon areas – where the mass media (including internet) still arrive with difficulty – and also in Italy, where he strives to highlight in his work and in social and literary events, the importance of dialogue and mutual exchange between different cultures, and he supports the integration of migrants and people with disabilities in the social structure.
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Biography
Beker Simon Fabian was born in Margos, in the district of Huanuco, Peru, on July 31 of 1963. He spent his infancy on the Andes with his grandparents and brothers, speaking the local Quechuan language and learning Spanish at the primary school. At the age of 14 he became independent from his numerous family members, who had already moved to Lima, working to complete his studies and beginning to travel through many provinces of Perú. To this period pertain his first poems. Achieving his diploma in pedagogy and education, he dedicated himself to teaching in the area of Amazonian border, valorizing local culture and innovating the outdated school programs, for eight years. Because of conflicts with Alberto Fujimori's regime, he left teaching and began touring all over South America, giving seminaries of oratory and taking part in international congresses of the Quechuan language.
In 1998 he arrived in Europe and settled in Italy, where he began to dedicate himself to his first and true passion for poetry, deepening his studies and learning the Italian and English languages. There, in 1999, he became an integral part of the Peruvian community in the city of Ancona and was elected as vice-president for a period of two years. In this city, he met the woman of his life, Alice Bellesi, and they tied the knot; this experience deeply marked his life and his work, and 15 years later it would become the essence of a book. Together with his yearned muse he traveled all over Europe: Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland – and he continues traveling. These journeys are reflected and transfigured in his poetical work.
In 2011 his first book, a collection of poems entitled Eternal Wayfarer (Eterno Viandante), was published: he undertook a tour of presentations which touched many Italian cities and participated with this work at the international literary event Babele Festival, in the town of Montecosaro, filmed by local television and presented online. In 2012 he undertook a tour of presentations of this book in Peru too, involving municipalities, libraries and schools.
In 2013 Elixir of Love (Elisir d’amore), a book in poetry and poetical prose co-authored with his wife, was published, so he undertook a tour of presentations in Italy. In 2014 this tour continued in Peru.
In 2015 he recorded a no-profit audio version of this book for the Italian Union of Blind and Partially Sighted People and the Institute of Rehabilitation Research and Training (UIC and IRIFOR) of Macerata.