Armando Alba Zambrana (9 February 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a

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n writer, journalist, historian and politician from

Potosí Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world at a nominal . For centuries, it was the location o ...

. He won the Premio Nacional de Cultura in 1969. He was an important member of ''

Gesta Bárbara Gesta Bárbara was a Bolivian literary journal that played an important role in Bolivian culture in the first half of the 20th century. It was established by Carlos Medinaceli in Potosí in 1918. In its first iteration, the journal ran for ten issu ...

'' and founded the Editorial Potosí group of writers. During the administration of President

Enrique Hertzog José Enrique Hertzog Garaizábal (; 10 November 1897, in La Paz – 31 July 1981, in Buenos Aires) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 42nd president of Bolivia from 1947 to 1949. He resigned in 1949, and died in exile in Argentina. ...

, Alba was appointed Minister of Education and Indigenous Affairs. He was also the Bank Secretary of Potosí and the 100th anniversary of birth was celebrated in 2001.

Works

*''Voces áulicas'' (poetry, 1918). *''Temple de la montaña y otros cuentos'' (stories, 1926). *''Imagen de Potosí y de su Casa Real de Moneda'' (

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s, 1946). *''Enumeración del Proceso Potosino y "Gesta Bárbara"'' (essays, 1946). *''Del viejo hontanar'' (poetry, 1970). *''Bolívar'' (

anthology In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...

, 1970). *''Prólogos escogidos'' (2001). *''Imagen de Potosí'' (2001).

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