One of the founders of the literary movement Bubinzana, which sought to renew literary form, to emphasize social conditions and to transcend the representation of the Amazon, Javier Dávila Durand is also a defender of ecological values that guide his poetry.

Born in Iquitos, Peru, in 1936, Durand is a poet, editor and cultural promoter who writes about the Amazon landscape. An ecological agenda comes across in his poetry through his animistic view of the world, where human and nonhuman aspects of nature become closely associated.

Some of his poetry books include Paisage de mi tierra (1956), which earned him his first international poetry contest, Yara (1965), La jungla de oro (2008), and Cerezo de alba sobre la pagoda (2003).