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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Fernando Alegria papers

Dates:
1924-2000

Bulk Dates:
1940-1998

Collection number:
M0651

Creator:
Alegr?a, Fernando, 1918-

Collection Size:
59 linear ft.

Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence with virtually every prominent literary figure in Latin America during the mid-to-late Twentieth Century, including Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende, Augusto Roa Bastos, Jaime Alazraki, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Nicanor Parra, and many others. Also includes correspondence with North American authors such as Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as Linus Pauling.The collection also contains numerous manuscripts by Alegria and other Latin American authors, including Raul Barrientos, Jorge Bernales, Alejo Carpentier, Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Roque Dalton, Humberto Diaz-Casanueva, Juan Armando Epple, Mario Antonio Espinosa, Ricardo Israel, Reynaldo Jimenez, Luis Merino, and Pablo Neruda.

Languages:
Languages represented in the collection: English

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