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Felipe Alfau was born on 24 August, 1902 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is an American novelist and poet. Discover Felipe Alfau's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

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Occupation Novelist and poet
Age 96 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 24 August 1902
Birthday 24 August
Birthplace Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Date of death 18 February, 1999
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality Spain

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1902

Felipe Alfau (24 August 1902 – 18 February 1999) was a Spanish-born American novelist and poet.

Most of his works were written in English.

Born in Barcelona, Alfau emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of fourteen.

He lived in the United States for the remainder of his life.

Alfau earned a living as a translator.

His sparse creation of fictional and poetic output remained obscure throughout most of his lifetime.

1923

Alfau also wrote a book of poetry in Spanish, Sentimental Songs (La poesía cursi), written between 1923 and 1987 and published in a bilingual edition in 1992; and a book of children's stories, Old Tales from Spain, published in 1929.

1930

Dawn Powell knew him in the late 1930s and described him thus in her diaries:

"Felipe Alfau, brilliant, dazzling mind, witty, Jesuitical, a mental performance similar only to Cummings, but a scholar—erudite, fascinating, above all a romantic about his Spain, fiercely patriotic, a figure out of a medieval romance, a lover of Toledo, of old Spain, valuable surely to his country—talked so brilliantly of Totalitarianism that is based on human weakness, Human Error, human conduct, that it almost convinced me."

1936

Alfau wrote two novels in English: Locos: A Comedy of Gestures and Chromos. Locos — a metafictive collection of related short stories set in Toledo and Madrid, involving several characters that defy the wishes of the author, write their own stories, and even assume each other's roles — was published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1936.

The novel, for which Alfau was paid $250, received some critical acclaim, but little popular attention.

1948

When Moore asked if he had written any other books, Alfau produced the manuscript for Chromos, which had been resting in a drawer since 1948.

1987

The novel was republished in 1987 after Steven Moore, then an editor for the small publisher Dalkey Archive Press, found the book at a barn sale in Massachusetts, read it, and contacted Alfau after a friend had found his telephone number in the Manhattan phone book.

The novel's second edition was modestly successful, but Alfau refused payment, instructing the publisher to use the earnings from Locos to fund some other unpublished work.

1990

A comic story of Spanish immigrants to the United States contending with their two cultures, Chromos went on to be nominated for the National Book Award in 1990.

Locos, Chromos and Old Tales from Spain were translated into Spanish and published in Spain during the 1990s.

Alfau's last years were spent in an octogenarian nursing home in New York, thanks to an indigent pension granted by the city council.

1999

Felipe Alfau died in New York in 1999.