Alejo Carpentier

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Cuban writer essayist human musicologist novelist

Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, renowned as a key figure in Latin American literature and an early pioneer of magical realism.

Aliases (1)

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cuban writer → essayist → human → musicologist → novelist →
awardReceived	Miguel de Cervantes Prize → Order of Félix Varela →
birthName	Alejo Carpentier y Valmont →
burialPlace	Colon Cemetery, Havana →
countryOfCitizenship	Cuba →
dateOfBirth	1904-12-26 →
dateOfDeath	1980-04-24 →
educatedAt	University of Havana →
ethnicGroup	Cuban of French descent →
fieldOfWork	Latin American literature → cultural history of the Caribbean → musicology →
genre	essay → novel →
influenced	Latin American Boom writers →
influencedBy	Surrealism →
languageOfWorkOrName	Spanish →
movement	lo real maravilloso → magical realism →
name	Alejo Carpentier →
nationality	Cuban →
notableConcept	lo real maravilloso americano →
notableWork	El acoso → El reino de este mundo → El siglo de las luces → Explosion in a Cathedral → Los pasos perdidos → The Kingdom of This World → The Lost Steps →
occupation	essayist → journalist → musicologist → novelist →
placeOfBirth	Cuba → Havana → La Habana →
placeOfDeath	France → Paris →
positionHeld	Cuban ambassador to France →
residence	Havana → Paris →
wrote	Concierto barroco → El acoso → El reino de este mundo → El siglo de las luces → Los pasos perdidos →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alejo Carpentier ("Alejo Carpentier y Valmont") →	birthName
Latin American literature →	hasNotableAuthor
Alejo Carpentier →	name
University of Havana →	notableAlumnus
Latin American Boom →	notableAuthor
National Prize for Literature (Cuba) →	notableRecipient