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Alejo Carpentier
| born |
December 26, 1904
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| died |
April 24, 1980 |
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Politics
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| influences |
Homer, Marcel Proust, Andre Breton, Miguel Angel Asturias |
about this author
Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.
Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Born in Havana, he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution.
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