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Alejo Carpentier

1904 - 1980

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Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alejo Carpentier is the 717th most popular writer (up from 726th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 76th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Writer.

Alejo Carpentier is most famous for his novel "The Kingdom of this World," which is a historical novel that tells the story of Haiti in the early 1800s.

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Among writers, Alejo Carpentier ranks 717 out of 7,302. Before him are Clarice Lispector, Odysseas Elytis, Epicharmus of Kos, William F. Buckley Jr., John Irving, and Mihai Eminescu. After him are Pierre Loti, Kassia, Marie de France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Pietro Bembo.

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Among people born in 1904, Alejo Carpentier ranks 30. Before him are René Lacoste, John Hicks, Joan Crawford, Ernst Mayr, Hans Albert Einstein, and Werner Forssmann. After him are Gerhard Herzberg, Hans Morgenthau, Witold Gombrowicz, Glenn Miller, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and Luis Carrero Blanco. Among people deceased in 1980, Alejo Carpentier ranks 34. Before him are Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, William Tolbert, Óscar Romero, Willard Libby, John Bonham, and Anastasio Somoza Debayle. After him are Milton H. Erickson, Hans Morgenthau, Oswald Mosley, C. P. Snow, Hans Asperger, and Gregory Bateson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alejo Carpentier ranks 73 out of 1,015. Before him are Gabriel Cramer (1704), Emil Jannings (1884), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Max Frisch (1911), Alexandre Yersin (1863), and Siegfried Wagner (1869). After him are Domenico Fontana (1543), Clay Regazzoni (1939), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Peter Zumthor (1943), and Félix Vallotton (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Alejo Carpentier ranks 8. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Carl Spitteler (1845), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), and Max Frisch (1911). After him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Gottfried Keller (1819), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878).

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