Alejo Carpentier

AlejoCarpentier

male, deceased (1980)
novelist, The Lost Steps, architect, Premio Cervantes winner, French, Cuban
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 - April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin...
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

male, 82 years old
nobel prize in literature, Latin American Boom, AlejoCarpentier, Short story writer, political activist, Nobel laureate in Literature
Gabriel José García Márquez, also known as Gabo is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nob...

Esteban Salas Y Castro

male, deceased (1803)
AlejoCarpentier, santiago de cuba, theology, Cuban, baroque, baroque music…Ajejo Carpentier
Esteban Salas y Castro was a composer of religious music. His compositions focused chiefly on vocal music, and are a fine representation of the...
Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse

male
University of Virginia, New Letters magazine, New Letters, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner magazine, comparative literature…AlejoCarpentier
Alan Cheuse (?-) was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1957 and Rutgers University in 1961. After...
Roberto Sierra

Roberto Sierra

male
Concierto Barroco, AlejoCarpentier, Casals Festival, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Festival de Lille
Roberto Sierra is a Puerto Rican composer. Sierra studied composition in Europe, notably with György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany. He came to p...

François Mackandal

male, deceased (1758)
AlejoCarpentier, plantations, slave, priest, haitian, magical realism
François Mackandal was one of the most famous leaders of the Haïtian Maroons. The Maroons were mainly black slaves that escaped from plantations an...