WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alejo Carpentier has received more than 348,006 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Alejo Carpentier is the 727th most popular writer (up from 786th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 78th in 2019) and the 7th 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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  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.08

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  • 4.86

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Notable Works

El siglo de las luces
1962
El reino de este mundo
1964
El acoso
1966
Concierto barroco
Fiction
A wealthy Mexican traveler journeys to eighteenth-century Venice, where he meets Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti
1974
Guerra del tiempo
1958
Los pasos perdidos
1959

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alejo Carpentier ranks 727 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernart de Ventadorn, William Saroyan, Hugo Ball, Longus, Zosimus, and Robert E. Howard. After him are Christopher Tolkien, Edmond Rostand, Arthur Adamov, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Amin Maalouf, and Beatrix Potter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Alejo Carpentier ranks 38. Before him are Dmitry Kabalevsky, Gregory Bateson, Ernst Mayr, Hans Morgenthau, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and George F. Kennan. After him are Lucile Randon, Willem de Kooning, Odilo Globočnik, Joseph Campbell, Nikolai Ostrovsky, and Clifford D. Simak. Among people deceased in 1980, Alejo Carpentier ranks 35. Before him are Fritz Strassmann, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Alexander Oparin, Óscar Romero, Gregory Bateson, and Hans Morgenthau. After him are William Howard Stein, Bill Evans, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Willard Libby, Yigal Allon, and Marian Rejewski.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alejo Carpentier ranks 75 out of 1,015. Before him are Clay Regazzoni (1939), Lys Assia (1924), Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778). After him are Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Werner Arber (1929), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Félix Vallotton (1865), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Alejo Carpentier ranks 7. Before him are Johanna Spyri (1827), Carl Spitteler (1845), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), and Robert Walser (1878). After him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Max Frisch (1911), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908).

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