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Home › Culture › Literature › Latin-American Authors › Ecuador

Ecuador

Jorge Enrique Adoum

Born: ?? ??? 1926 – Ambato, Ecuador

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet, novelist, dramatist, critic

Achievements:

  1. Ecuadorean National Prize for Poetry (1952)
  2. Casa de las Américas Prize (1960)
  3. Mexican Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1976)
  4. 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:

  1. Cultural attaché in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay
  2. 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:

  1. Co-founder of Ecuador’s Syndicate of Artists and Writers (????)
  2. National Prize for Literature (1936)

Juan León Mera

Born: 28 JUN 1832 – Ambato, Ecuador

Died: 13 DEC 1894 – Ambato

Type: Prose writer, poet

Achievements:

  1. Composed the song adopted as the National Anthem (1865)

Alicia Yánez Cossío

Born: ?? ??? 1929 – Quito

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. First Prize for a literary competition sponsored by Guayaquil’s leading newspaper, El Universo (1972)




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