- Jorge Enrique Adoum
- Born: ?? ??? 1926 – Ambato, Ecuador
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet, novelist, dramatist, critic
- Achievements:
- Ecuadorean National Prize for Poetry (1952)
- Casa de las Américas Prize (1960)
- Mexican Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1976)
- Ecuadorean Eugenio Espejo National Prize for Culture (1989)
- Demétrio Aguilera Malta
- Born: 24 MAY 1909 – Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Died: 29 DEC 1981
- Type: Prose Writer
- Achievements:
- Cultural attaché in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay
- Made an internationally acclaimed documentary film on the Rio de Janeiro carnival
- Jorge Carrera Andrade
- Born: 18 SEP 1903 – Quito
- Died: 11 NOV 1976 – Quito
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- José de la Cuadra
- Born: 03 SEP 1903 – Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Died: ?? ??? 1941 – Guayaquil
- Type: Prose writer, journalist
- Achievements:
- Jorge Icaza
- Born: 10 JUL 1906 – Quito
- Died: 26 MAY 1978
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Co-founder of Ecuador’s Syndicate of Artists and Writers (????)
- National Prize for Literature (1936)
- Juan León Mera
- Born: 28 JUN 1832 – Ambato, Ecuador
- Died: 13 DEC 1894 – Ambato
- Type: Prose writer, poet
- Achievements:
- Composed the song adopted as the National Anthem (1865)
- Alicia Yánez Cossío
- Born: ?? ??? 1929 – Quito
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- First Prize for a literary competition sponsored by Guayaquil’s leading newspaper, El Universo (1972)
- Born: ?? ??? 1926 – Ambato, Ecuador
