Alejo Carpentier Biography

Alejo Carpentier biography

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NAME: Alejo Carpentier
OCCUPATION: Musician, Journalist, Author, Playwright
BIRTH DATE: December 26, 1904
DEATH DATE: April 24, 1980
EDUCATION: University of Havana
PLACE OF BIRTH: Lausanne, Switzerland
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France

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Writer Alejo Carpentier was a leading Latin American literary figure, who used magic realism and was considered one of the best novelists of the 20th century.

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Alejo Carpentier

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Writer Alejo Carpentier was born December 26, 1904, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Though born in France he claimed he was Cuban-born. He was taken to Havana as an infant. In the 1920s he cofounded the Afro-Cuban movement to incorporate African forms into avant-garde art. Carpentier wrote several opera librettos and ballet pieces with Afro-Cuban themes, and in 1933 he published a novel.