Alejo Carpentier

Alejo Carpentier was born on 26 December 1904 in Lausanne, to a French architect father and a mother who taught Russian, then grew up in Havana, where he would claim to have been born. A journalist, he was imprisoned under Machado, reached Paris in 1928 with Robert Desnos's passport and mixed with the Surrealists. He then lived in Caracas, returned to Cuba after 1959, became ambassador to Paris in 1966 and received the Cervantes Prize in 1977. He died in Paris on 24 April 1980.

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• NovelThe Kingdom of This WorldEl reino de este mundoAlejo Carpentier · 1949Literature