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Abelardo Diaz Alfaro ( 1916 - July 22, 1999) was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. He has been recognized by many university deans, teachers and book critics as one of the greatest hispanic writers of all time. Some say his actual year of birth was 1919, but officially it was always announced as 1916.Alfaro was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, but soon after, his family moved to Ponce. He returned to Caguas to attend University and got married to Gladys Meaux , with whom he had 2 daughters and one son.
Diaz Alfaro obtained a bachillerato in arts at the polytechnical institute of San German . He also obtained a title as a social worker, as well as certificates in Spanish and psychology
He also obtained many honorary doctorates from different universities.
He was able to do conferences in many points of Latin America after reaching fame, including Mexico (at the Ateneo Espanol), Venezuela and many other countries. His books have been translated to EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil, PolishPolish polski jezyk polski is the official language of Poland. History Polish has been influenced by contact with foreign languages (foremost Latin, Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian and recently it has been virtually bombarded by English, especiall, RussianRussian /'ruski j'zk/) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, inclu, GermanGerman (called Deutsch in German in which germanisch refers to prechristian times), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union., FrenchFrench le francais la langue francaise is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother to, ItalianItalian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North. and CzechLanguages of the Czech Republic Slavic languages The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian, and Sorbian. It is spoken by most people in the Czech Republic and by Czechs all over the world (about 12 milli, among other languages.
Among the books he wrote are:
- TerrazoTerrazo is the name of a book written in 1947 by Puerto Rican writer Abelardo Diaz Alfaro. The book won many awards and made it to the national libraries of many Latin American countries where Diaz Alfaro was a known and respected writer. Terrazo tells th (published in 1947)
- Mi Isla Sonada
- Los Perros
- The Eye Of The Heart
- United States In Literature
- Classic Tales Of Spanish America
- Cuentos del Mundo Hispano (Spanish version of Classic Tales)
- Changes Antologia Mundial
- The Green Antilles
- Contemporary Readers
- National Catholic
- The Princeton Tiger
- Europe in France
- Campo Alegre .
Campo Alegre is a text that has been studied at schools in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand as well as all over the Americas.
