Carlos Solórzano

Carlos Solórzano was born in May 1922 in San Marcos, Guatemala, a great-grandson of a president of the country, and grew up on his father's coffee plantation, where an Indian nurse told him the old stories. He left for Mexico in 1939, where he became an architect, then a doctor of letters, before studying theatre in Paris, where existentialism left its mark on him. Artistic director of the university theatre of Mexico City, he was the first critic to treat Latin American theatre on a continental scale, and in 1989 received the national prize for literature of his native country. He died on 30 March 2011.

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• TheatreLas manos de DiosCarlos Solórzano · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature