Carlos Zubizarreta

Carlos Zubizarreta
Born	1904 Asunción, Paraguay
Died	1972 Asunción, Paraguay
Occupation	Narrator, essayist
Notable work	Historia de mi ciudad (1965), Cien vidas paraguayas (1961)

Carlos Zubizarreta was a writer born in Asunción, Paraguay in 1904.

Zubizarreta studied at the Colegio San José in Asunción and applied to study law at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. 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.

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 Irala, 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 ... ".

Other titles from this prolific writer include:

He died in Asunción in 1972.

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