[2] Carlos Solórzano was born in 1919 to a wealthy family in San Marcos in Guatemala.

In 1945 he graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as an architect, as a master and doctor of letters 1946–1948.

In 1948, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation permitted him to study drama at Sorbonne, Paris, France.

A number of his works are allegorical ranging from political allegories with hidden agendas to explorations of the reason for man's existence.

[2] He was a professor at the Autonomous University of Latin America, and an editor of the theatrical encyclopedia, Enciclopedia Mundial del Teatro Contemporaneo, before he died in 2011.