[1] Born César Augusto Rodríguez Olcay in Arequipa, he took the pseudonym, "Atahualpa", after the Arequipan poet Percy Gibson.
At the end of 1916, along with Percy Gibson, Rodriguez founded the group "El Aquelarre" and published four issues of a magazine which bore the same name, initiatives that were an incentive for Arequipa intellectual life.
"El Aquelarre" appeared around the same time as that the movement "Colónida" in Lima, the group "Norte" of Trujillo, and "La Tea" of Puno.
According to Arequipa literary critic Titus Cáceres Cuadros, "Poetry of Rodriguez had enough social emotion and a strong regional accent."
Centrally themed on the search for solitude as a means to become the primary source of his philosophical writings, the book brought together poems that are representative of the sophistication of the poet.