Natasha Salguero Bravo is a novelist, poet, journalist and nonfiction writer. She was born in Quito, Ecuador on October 2, 1952. In 1989, using a male pseudonym, her novel Azulinaciones won the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit National Literature Prize, making her the first woman to win the prize. That same year she won the Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize for Azulinaciones.
Personal life
Since 1974 she has been married to the ballet dancer and theatre actor Wilson Pico with whom she has 2 children.
Works
Prose
- 1989: Azulinaciones.
- 1992: Mujeres en torno a un ataúd.
- 1998: Mujeres contracorriente : voces de líderes indígenas. Co-written by Emma Cervone and Lucía Chiriboga
- 2002: Nace una danza : una mirada a la danza en los años setenta en el Ecuador.
- 2012: Canción de amor que se anida en mi pecho 23.
Poetry
- 1985: Heréticos y eróticos.
- 1992: Cantos.
- 2001: Nave palabra 24.
- 2005: No me digas que me amas25.
- 2011: Jaula de signos 24.
- 2013: Viaje: Mecánica y Pasión de los Objetos. Junto a María Ángeles Pérez López.
Nonfiction
- 2007: Wilson Pico 40 años en escena.