Nestor Taboada Teran (8 September 1929 – 8 June 2015) was a Bolivian writer, novelist, historian, journalist and university professor.[1][2][3]
Biography
editHe was born in La Paz and, in his youth, worked as a linotypist before he became a journalist. A prolific author, he wrote some 128 books in his long life, among them the novels Manchay Puytu (1977) and El signo escalonado (1975), both of which are considered among the best novels in Bolivian literature. He also won the National Novel Award for his work La Virgen de los Deseos (2008). His work inspired the book by the doctor in Latin American literature, Keith Richards, Lo imaginario mestizo: aislamiento y dislocación de la visión de Bolivia de Néstor Taboada Terán (1999), originally presented in 1994 as a doctoral thesis (The mestizo imaginary) at King's College, University of London.[4][5]
In 1993, the musical Manchay Puytu, the Sound of Fear premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in 1995, Bolivian composer Alberto Villalpando premiered the lyric opera Manchay Puytu, based on Taboada Terán's novel.[6][7][8]
Among many honours, both domestic and international, he was a member of the Bolivian Academy of Language.[9]
References
edit- ^ "El compromiso social de Néstor Taboada Terán - Aurora Boreal el portal para los amantes del español". www.auroraboreal.net. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "Néstor Taboada Terán (Bolivia) | Fundación Konex". fundacionkonex.com.ar. 2013-12-03. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "Fallece el escritor Néstor Taboada Terán - La Razón". la-razon.com. 2015-06-10. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ Richards, Keith; Richards, Keith John (1999). Lo imaginario mestizo: aislamiento y dislocación de la visión de Bolivia de Néstor Taboada Terán (in Spanish). Plural editores. ISBN 978-84-89891-49-4.
- ^ Richards, Keith John (1994). The Mestizo Imaginary: Isolation and Disunity in Nestor Taboada Teran's Vision of Bolivia.
- ^ "Néstor Taboada Terán (Bolivia) | Fundación Konex". fundacionkonex.com.ar. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "ENCOMIO DE NÉSTOR TABOADA TERÁN". laprensa.com.bo. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "Taboada Terán, Néstor (1929-VVVV). » MCNBiografias.com". www.mcnbiografias.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "Fallece prolífico escritor Néstor Taboada Terán". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2024-03-14.