Vicente Cabrera Funes (March 28, 1944 – July 6, 2014) was an Ecuadorian novelist, essayist and Spanish professor at at the University of Minnesota Morris. He received his B.A. from the Pontifical Catholic University (Quito, Ecuador), and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. He wrote several novels and short story collections, all of which were set principally in Ecuador. Critiquing Cabrera’s novel “Los malditos amantes de Carolina” (2005), George R. McMurray, Professor Emeritus Colorado State University, wrote that it “represents an ingenious example of metafiction, that is, a novel that dramatizes its own creative process.” Funes also wrote several notable essays, including “La nueva ficción hispanoamericana: a través de M.A. Asturias y G. García Márquez” (1972) and “Tres poetas a la luz de la metáfora: Salinas, Aleixandre y Guillén” (1975).
Awards
- UMM Faculty Distinguished Research Award
Selected works
| Year of Publication | Literary work | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | El suicidio de los inocentes | Novel |
| 2008 | Dónde más si no en el Paraíso | Novel |
| 2005 | Los malditos amantes de Carolina | Novel |
| 2003 | La sombra del espía | Novel |
| 2003 | El hortelano de Ulba, o, Sonia, El soldador y El hortelano | Novel |
| 1984 | La noche del té ; El gabán | Novel |
| 1983 | Juan Benet | Novel |
| 1977-80 | Journal of Spanish studies. Editor | Essay |
| 1978 | Novela española contemporánea: Cela, Delibes, Romero y Hernández, Coauthor | Essay |
| 1975 | Tres poetas a la luz de la metáfora: Salinas, Aleixandre y Guillén, Author | Essay |
| 1972 | La nueva ficción hispanoamericana: a través de M.A. Asturias y G. Garica Márquez, Coauthor | Essay |