Carlos Zubizarreta was a writer born in

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in 1904.

Infancy and youth

Zubizarreta studied at the Colegio San José in Asunción and applied to study law at the

Universidad Nacional de Asunción The Universidad Nacional de Asunción or Mbo'ehaovusu Tetãgua Paraguaygua, abbreviated UNA, anglicized as, The National University of Asuncion, is a public university founded in San Lorenzo, Paraguay. Founded in 1889, it is the oldest and most t ...

. Founder and director of the famous cultural magazine "Juventud" (''Youth'') and collaborator of "Alas" (''Wings'') magazine, he was to some the finest narrator and essayist and most elegant writer in the history of twentieth-century Paraguayan literature.

Career

In his "Historia de la Literatura Paraguaya" (''History of Paraguayan Literature'', 1971), Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá wrote that Zubizarreta "... published his first book of essays, "Acuarelas paraguayas" '' Paraguayan watercolours'', in 1940. These "watercolours" are vivid portraits of customs and folklore painted by a skillful artist – but a painter-historian who sees the Paraguay of today with one eye, and with the other the Paraguay of the past, of

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, of Montoya, of López y Aguirre and the rest. In effect, he barely starts to paint modern Asunción ... before its current landscape disappears and a vision of the city of Conquest and Colony arises ... ".

Works

Other titles from this prolific writer include:

Final years

He died in

in 1972.

References

Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo
* Diccionario Biográfico "FORJADORES DEL PARAGUAY", Primera Edición enero de 2000. Distribuidora Quevedo de Ediciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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1904 births 1972 deaths Writers from Asunción Paraguayan people of Basque descent Paraguayan male writers Universidad Nacional de Asunción alumni {{Paraguay-writer-stub