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Carpentier, Alejo
1904 - 1980

Cuban author, who was born in Lausanne in Switzerland but moved with his parents to Havana when newly born. His father was a French architect, his mother a Russian language professor. Alejo Carpentier spent a large part of his life abroad. When he wa...
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