Nestor Taboada Teran (8 September 1929 – 8 June 2015) was a
Bolivian writer, novelist, historian, journalist and university professor.
Biography
He was born in
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...
and, in his youth, worked as a
linotypist before he became a journalist. A prolific author, he wrote some 128 books in his long life, among them the novels ''
Manchay Puytu'' (1977) and ''
El signo escalonado'' (1975), both of which are considered among the best novels in
Bolivian literature
The constant political turmoil that Bolivia has experienced throughout its history has slowed the development of Bolivian literature. Many talents have had to emigrate or were silenced by the internal conflict. In recent years the literature of Bo ...
. He also won the National Novel Award for his work ''La Virgen de los Deseos'' (2008). His work inspired the book by the doctor in Latin American literature, Keith Richards, ''Lo imaginario mestizo: aislamiento y dislocación de la visión de Bolivia de Néstor Taboada Terán'' (1999), originally presented in 1994 as a doctoral thesis (''The mestizo imaginary'') at
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It ca ...
,
University of London
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.
In 1993, the musical ''Manchay Puytu, the Sound of Fear'' premiered at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York
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, and in 1995, Bolivian composer
Alberto Villalpando
Alberto Villalpando (born 21 November 1940, in La Paz) is a Bolivian composer.
Biography
Villalpando began his musical training in Potosí under Santiago Velásquez and Padre José Díaz Gainza. From 1958 he studied at the Conservatory of Bueno ...
premiered the lyric opera ''Manchay Puytu'', based on Taboada Terán's novel.
Among many honours, both domestic and international, he was a member of the
Bolivian Academy of Language.
References
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Bolivian writers
1927 births
2015 deaths