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Alejo Carpanter
Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904–1980)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 December 1904
- Died
- 24 April 1980
- Place of death
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Alejo
- Family name
- Carpenter
- Movement
- surrealism, magic realism
- Occupation
- writer, journalist, essayist, musicologist, literary critic, diplomat, university teacher, publisher, folklorist, ethnographer, novelist
- Position held
- ambassador, cultural attaché
- Awards
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Prix Médicis étranger, Q136747220, Alfonso Reyes International Prize
- birth name
- Alejo Carpentier Valmont
- cause of death
- cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Q130921306
- employer
- El Mundo
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Alejo Carpenter y Valmont
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Kingdom of this World, Explosion in a Cathedral, The Harp and the Shadow, Praised Be God!, Guerra del tiempo, Q16492410
- place of burial
- Colón Cemetery, Havana
- start of work period
- 1924
- topic's main category
- Category:Alejo Carpentier
- writing language
- Spanish
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