The Alejo Carpentier Foundation

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Chapter 28 - The Alejo Carpentier Foundation

from Part VI - Carpentier for Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2026

Armando Juan,

Raggi Rodríguez,

Rafael Rodríguez Beltrán and

Joseph Larson

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Anke Birkenmaier

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Summary

The Alejo Carpentier Foundation was created in 1993 with the purpose of preserving materials and offering researchers the patrimony left by the author, as well as publishing his work in Cuba and abroad. Regarding the dissemination of the author’s works, the institution, which owns the copyrights for the novelist, has maintained and extended its relations with publishing houses from numerous countries that make his oeuvre known in diverse world languages. The Foundation supports in many ways the study of Carpentier’s life and works (publications in different media outlets, scholarships, consultations, courses, and international colloquiums), but, above all, it facilitates research of a considerable fund of first rate documentation, which is structured as active literature (the editions of his works in multiple languages), secondary literature (the many studies on his work), his personal library and the Carpentier Papers archive. The above is discussed in this chapter following a chronological sequence.

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Fundación Alejo Carpentier Carpentier bibliography archives editions Casa las Américas

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Information: Alejo Carpentier in Context , pp. 337 - 347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009554824.029 [Opens in a new window]
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026

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