Category: Poets

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Gustavo Egüez Villacreses

Gustavo Egüez Villacreses (Ambato, March 26, 1923 - Guayaquil, May 29, 1981) was a poet and writer. Egüez received several awards for…

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Antonio Preciado

Antonio Preciado Bedoya is an Afro-Ecuadorian poet, university professor and diplomat. He was born in Esmeraldas on May 21, 1941. He was…

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Fernando Artieda

Fernando Artieda Miranda (Guayaquil, June 14, 1945 - April 15, 2010) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet and journalist. For 40 years he…

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Fernando Nieto Cadena

Fernando Nieto Cadena (Quito, March 29, 1947 - Villahermosa, Mexico, March of 2017) was an Ecuadorian poet. In the 1970s he founded…

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Leira Aráujo Nieto

Leira Aráujo Nieto (Guayaquil, 1990) is an Ecuadorian poet, writer, screen writer, actress, literature professor, and researcher. In 2015 she published her…

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Josué Negrete

Josué Negrete is a poet from Quito, Ecuador. In 2020 he won the Ileana Espinel Poetry Prize for his book Bajo las…

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Edwin Augusto Paredes

Edwin Augusto Paredes Paredes is an Ecuadorian poet. He was born in Loja 1988. His poetry has appeared on blogs, online magazines…

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Cristóbal Zapata

Cristóbal Zapata is an Ecuadorian poet, editor, literary critic, and art curator. He was born in Cuenca in 1968. He is currently…

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Catalina Sojos

Catalina Sojos Mata (Cuenca, 1951) is a poet, writer, columnist, author of children's literature, and a translator. In 1989, at the age…

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Solange Rodríguez

Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976) is an Ecuadorian writer and professor known for her short fiction in the genres of fantasy,…

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Luís Carlos Mussó

Luís Carlos Mussó (Guayaquil, March 17, 1970) is an Ecuadorian poet and novelist. His first novel Oscurana (2012) won the Felicísimo Rojas…

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Julio Zaldumbide Gangotena

Julio Zaldumbide Gangotena (Quito, June 5, 1833 – Ibarra, July 31, 1887) was an Ecuadorian poet and politician, recognized as one of…

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Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira

Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (Quito, November 8, 1925 - January 21, 2009) was an Ecuadorian poet, professor and diplomat. He was a professor…

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Fernando Cazón Vera

Fernando Cazón Vera is an Ecuadorian poet, columnist, editor, and university professor. He was born in Quito on June 5, 1935 and…

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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…