Alejo Carpentier was born on December 26, 1904 in Lausanne, Switzerland as Alejo Carpentier y Valmont. He was a writer, known for Le siècle des lumières (1993), El recurso del método (1978) and Barroco (1989). He was married to Lilia Esteban Hierro. He died on April 25, 1980 in Paris, France.