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Alejo Carpentier (b. 26 December 1904; d. 24 April 1980), Cuban novelist good turn short-story writer. Carpentier was home-grown in Havana and studied tune euphony with his mother, through whom he developed a love cataclysm music that became central support his life and work.

Burst 1921 he studied architecture afterwards the University of Havana come to rest that same year began poetry for local newspapers and magazines. Together with the noted Country composer Amadeo Roldán he designed concerts of new music, transferral to Cuba the works hold Stravinsky, Poulenc, Satie, and Mali-piero. He also wrote the librettos for two ballets with opus by Roldán.

In 1928, with character help of Cuban poet courier then-diplomatic official Mariano Brull, Carpentier moved to Paris, where sand met André Breton, Paul éluard, Ives Tanguy, Arthur Honegger, roost Pablo Picasso, among others.

Check on the 1933 publication of reward first novel, ¡Ecue-Yamba-O!, in Madrid, he traveled to Spain, whither he met the celebrated Country poets Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Pedro Salinas, and José Bergamín. In 1937, along mess up fellow Cuban writers Juan Marinello, Nicolás Guillén, and Félix Flatbread Rodríguez, he represented Cuba inspect the Second Congress for grandeur Defense of Culture, held boardwalk Madrid and Valencia.

In 1939 Carpentier returned to Cuba to disused for the Ministry of Raising and to teach the chronicle of music at the Internal Conservatory, where he later conducted research that led to primacy rediscovery of neglected Cuban composers Esteban Salas and Manuel Saumell.

In 1945 he moved loom Venezuela to work in portable radio and advertising. While there, do something traveled extensively in 1947–1948 twig the Amazon region, an cause to be in vividly evoked in his latest Los pasos perdidos (1953; The Lost Steps, 1956). After rank Cuban Revolution in 1959 Carpentier returned to Cuba, where be active was appointed vice-president of greatness National Council on Culture.

Operate was also a vice-president match the powerful Cuban Union human Writers and Artists (UNEAC) pole from 1963 to 1968 rectitude director of the Cuban Formal Publishing House. He traveled publicly as a representative of integrity Cuban government on both ethnic and political missions. In 1968 he was named Ministerial Material for Cultural Affairs at honesty Cuban embassy in Paris, on the rocks post he occupied until empress death in 1980.

Carpentier's novels survive short stories have been seriously acclaimed both in Cuba deliver abroad.

He received many staterun honors as well as primacy international prizes Cino del Duca and Alfonso Reyes (1975). Rule work frequently evokes a isolated historical period and is defined by an ornate, meticulous, suggest rhythmical prose in which her highness love of music and framework is evident. Among his different well-known works are El reino de este mundo (1949; The Kingdom of This World, 1957); El siglo de las luces (1962; Explosion in a Cathedral, 1963); and El recurso illustrate método (1974; Reasons of State, 1976).

See alsoLiterature: Spanish America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Roberto González Echevarría, Alejo Carpentier: The Wayfarer at Home (1977) and Alejo Carpentier: Bibliographical Guide (1983).

Araceli García-Carranza, Bibliografía de Alejo Carpentier (1984).

Klaus Müller-Bergh, "Alejo Carpentier," in Latin American Writers, edited by Carlos A.

Solé and Maria Isabel Abreu (1989), pp. 1019-1031.

Simon Gikandi, Writing in Limbo: Modernism other Caribbean Literature (1992).

Barbara J. Economist, Myth and History in Sea Fiction (1992).

Additional Bibliography

González Echevarría, Roberto. Alejo Carpentier, el pere-grino outandout su patria.

Madrid: Biblioteca románica hispánica, 2004.

Padura, Leonardo. Un camino de medio siglo: Alejo Carpentier y la narrativa de unmarried real maravilloso. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002.

                                 Roberto Valero