Alejo Carpentier Biography
| Born as | Alejo Carpentier y Valmont |
| Occup. | Novelist |
| From | Cuba |
| Born | December 26, 1904
Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Died | April 24, 1980
Paris, France |
| Cause | Cancer |
| Aged | 75 years |
Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban writer and also musicologist that greatly influenced Latin American literature throughout its "boom" period.
For a long period of time thought that he was born in Havana, Cuba, where he relocated directly after birth, yet after his fatality found a birth certificate in Switzerland. His mother was a Russian language professor and his father was a French designer. When he was twelve years old the family members transferred to Paris where he began examining songs theory. Then they went back to Cuba, he researched style, but he never ever ended up the training. He was left a reporter as well as spent a long time in jail before he entered into exile in France. There he satisfied the surrealists
Andre Breton,
Paul Eluard,
Louis Aragon,
Jacques Prevert, and
Antonin Artaud. Meanwhile in France, he additionally made several trips to Spain where he established an attraction with the baroque.
He went back to Cuba as well as continued to work as a journalist. There, he checked out a voodoo event that was to establish his interest in afrokubanism. 1943 he made an important journey to Haiti, where he visited the fort La Ferriere and also Sans-Souci Palace, both built by the black king Henri Christophe.
Between 1945 as well as 1959 he resided in Venezuela, which is the apparent inspiration for the unrevealed South American nation in which the lost port mostly takes place in. He went back to Cuba after the change in 1959 and was designated in 1966 to Cuban Ambassador to France. He received the
Miguel de Cervantes rate in 1977 and also the French Medicis Prize 1979th
Carpentier battled cancer cells considering that he completed his last novel as well as died in Paris 24 April 1980.
Our collection contains 3 quotes who is written / told by Alejo.
Related authors: Jacques Prevert (Poet), Andre Breton (Poet), Louis Aragon (Poet), Paul Eluard (Poet), Antonin Artaud (Dramatist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Miguel de Cervantes (Novelist), Christo (Artist)
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