Month: January 2021

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Alejandro Carrión Aguirre

Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (Loja, March 11, 1915 - Quito, January 4, 1992) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote numerous…

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Osvaldo Hurtado

Luis Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea is a former president of Ecuador (1981-1984) and within Ecuador he is one of the most widely read…

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Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco was an Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and statesman. He was born in Guayaquil on October 12, 1908 and…

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Ernesto Quiñonez

Ernesto Quiñonez is an American novelist born in Ecuador in 1969. He was raised in Spanish Harlem, New York City, by a…

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Salomon Isacovici

Salomon Isacovici (Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania, 1925 - February 1998) was a businessman based in Ecuador who also penned a memoir detailing his survival…

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José Trajano Mera

José Trajano Mera Iturralde was an Ecuadorian poet, playwright and diplomat with a literary and cultural heritage. He was born in Ambato…

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José María Egas

José María Egas (Manta, November 28, 1897 - 1982) was an Ecuadorian poet, lawyer, journalist and university professor. Many of his poems…

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Ulises Estrella

Ulises Estrella Moya was an Ecuadorian poet, writer, professor and film expert. He was born in Quito on July 4, 1939 and died in the…

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Euler Granda

Euler Granda (Riobamba, June 7, 1935 — Portoviejo, February 22, 2018) was an Ecuadorian poet, writer, and psychiatrist. In the second half of…

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Francisco Arízaga Luque

Francisco Arízaga Luque was an Ecuadorian poet, writer and politician. He was born in Lima, Peru on February 6, 1900, while his father was…

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Hugo Mayo

Miguel Augusto Egas Miranda (Manta, November 24, 1895 – Guayaquil, April 5, 1988), better known by his pen name Hugo Mayo, was…

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Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño

Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño (Guayaquil, August 2, 1889 – Quito, December 7, 1927) was an Ecuadorian poet. Together with Arturo Borja, Humberto…

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Horacio Hidrovo Peñaherrera

Horacio Hidrovo Peñaherrera (Santa Ana, June 24, 1931 – June 9, 2012) was an Ecuadorian poet, writer, professor, cultural promoter, former mayor…

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Gonzalo Escudero Moscoso

Gonzalo Escudero Moscoso (Quito, September 28, 1903 – Brussels, October 10, 1971) was an Ecuadorian poet, academic and diplomat. He earned a…

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Iván Oñate

Iván Oñate (Ambato, Ecuador, 1948) is an Ecuadorian poet and fiction writer. He has published 8 poetry books and 2 short story…