The inventor of the marvelous real, winner of the 1977 Cervantes Prize, died on April 24th, 1980, in Paris.
Critics considered him one of the fundamental Spanish-language writers of the 20th century and one of the architects of Latin American literary renewal.
The Cuban-French writer Alejo Carpentier, inventor of the marvelous real genre, died on April 24th, 1980, in Paris, at the age of 75. Today marks 45 years since his death.
Alejo Carpentier was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1904, the son of a French architect who settled in the Antilles. In 1921, he abandoned his architectural studies and devoted himself to journalism, joining the so-called "Grupo Minorista." He was imprisoned for political reasons during the Machado regime in Cuba. In 1928, he stowed away to France, where he remained until 1939. Upon his return to Cuba, he worked in radio. He then settled in Venezuela from 1945 to 1959, when he returned to Cuba to direct the National Publishing House.
