Alfredo Varela
Illustration — Alfredo Varela Alfredo Varela (24 September 191425 February 1984) was an Argentine writer. A communist, he won the Lenin Peace Prize 1970-1971 and was awarded with the Order of Friendship of Peoples by the Soviet Union. His most famous novel was The Dark River (Spanish: Río oscuro; German: Die Matepflücker oder der dunkle Fluß), adapted into a film by his friend Hugo del Carril in 1952 as Las aguas bajan turbias.
Alfredo Varela
Margarita B. Pontieri · Capítulo. La Historia de la Literatura Argentina. Buenos Aires, Centro Editor de América Latina, 1981, Suplemento 115. · Public domain
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- 1914 · Buenos Aires.
- Died
- 1984 · Mar del Plata.
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- Argentina
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- writer · journalist
- Honours
- Lenin Peace Prize · Order of Friendship of Peoples · Medal for Peace
- Languages
- Spanish
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He was born in Buenos Aires in 1914. He started as a journalist in Crítica newspaper. He was jailed many times due to his communist activities.
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Alfredo Varela lived from 24 September 1914 to 25 February 1984 and is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The birth of Alfredo Varela is recorded on 24 September 1914 in Buenos Aires, and the death on 25 February 1984 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Distinctions recorded are Lenin Peace Prize, Order of Friendship of Peoples and Medal for Peace.
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