Author · Nicaragua
Lizandro Chávez Alfaro
Died in 2006
Lizandro Chávez Alfaro was born on 25 October 1929 in Bluefields, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, and studied there. Having left for Mexico City in 1948, he studied the visual arts at the Academy of San Carlos, began with painting and poetry, then turned to fiction: his first story collection received the Casa de las Américas prize in 1963. A novelist of the history of his native coast, he spent long hours in libraries for his research and died in Managua on 9 April 2006.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelTrágame tierraLizandro Chávez Alfaro · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature