Abelardo diaz alfaro biography

Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (July 24, 1916 – July 22, 1999) was an author from Puerto Rico who achieved great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s.
Diaz was born on July 24, 1917, in Caguas, P.R., the son of a local minister and journalist and a schoolteacher.
Abelardo Díaz Alfaro was born on July 24, 1916 in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

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Abelardo Diaz Alfaro, 81; Author of Puerto Rican Stories

Abelardo Diaz Alfaro, whose short stories gave voice to Puerto Ricans' quest for identity, died on Thursday at his home in Guaynabo, a suburb of San Juan. He was 81.

The cause was complications from repeated strokes, said his wife, Gladys Meaux de Diaz Alfaro.

''He was an extraordinarily important writer because he did not seek international fame but concentrated on the rural people of Puerto Rico,'' said Edgar Correa, a spokesman for the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.

''He celebrated the jibaro, or country folk, in his work,'' Mr. Correa added.

Throughout his life, Mr. Diaz published thousands of short stories and radio and television scripts, first winning international recognition in 1947 with ''Terraza'' (''Terrace''), a collection of stories based on popular tradition and culture.

In one of his best known tales, ''El Josco'' (''The Swarthy One''), two neighbors acquire an Amer

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Abelardo Diaz Alfaro

Abelardo Diaz Alfaro (1916-1999) was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. He has been recognized by many university deans, teachers and book critics as one of the greatest hispanic writers of all time. Some say his actual year of birth was 1919, but officially it was always announced as 1916.

Alfaro was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, but soon after, his family moved to Ponce. He returned to Caguas to attend University and got married to Gladys Meaux[?], with whom he had 2 daughters and one son.

Diaz Alfaro obtained a bachillerato in arts at the polytechnical institute of San German[?]. He also obtained a title as a social worker, as well as certificates in Spanish and psychology

He also obtained many honorary doctorates from different universities.

He was able to do conferences in many points of Latin America after reaching fame, including Mexico (at the Ateneo Espanol), Venezula[?] and many other countries. His books have been translated to English, Polish, Russian, German, French, Italian and

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Abelardo Diaz Alfaro was born in 1919 in Puerto Rico and was a famous Creole storyteller who published his first collection of stories in 1947 highlighting rural life; in 1967 he published a collection of radio scripts that was awarded by the University of Rio Piedras Society of Journalists; and in 1997 he received the National Culture Award for Intellectual Merit from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture before passing away in 1999.

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