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Ecuadorian literature has been characterized for essentially being costumbrista [1] and, in general, closely linked to events that are exclusively national in nature, with narratives that provide a glimpse into the life of the common citizen.The origins of Ecuadorian literature go back to the ancestral narratives that were passed down from generation to generation.
Luz Argentina Chiriboga Guerrero was born on 1 April 1940 in Esmeraldas, Ecuador to the banana farmer Segundo Chiriboga Ramírez and Luz Maria Guerrero Morales. She attended the public school Hispanoamericana until the fourth grade and then transferred to the Colegio Nacional Cinco de Agosto in Esmeraldas, where she studied until 1955. [1]
La hoguera bárbara – Vida de Eloy Alfaro (Mexico, 1944), a biography of Ecuadorian president Eloy Alfaro. Vida y leyenda de Miguel de Santiago (Mexico, 1952), a biography of Ecuadorian painter Miguel de Santiago. Alfredo Pareja is included in the following anthologies: El nuevo relato ecuatoriano (Quito, 1951)
The book, published in 1979, is the most sold novel in Ecuador. [3] The novel put Cárdenas in the pinnacle of Ecuadorian narrative in the 1980s. In 1991 he was elected the president of the Azuay branch of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, and he won Third Prize at the National Biennial Novel Contest with his novel Que te perdone el viento (May ...
De la Cuadra was part of the "Guayaquil Group" and wrote many essays, novels, articles and above all, short stories. The "Guayaquil Group" was one of the most recognized literary groups in Ecuador in 1930-1940, which also included the writers Enrique Gil Gilbert , Demetrio Aguilera Malta , Joaquín Gallegos Lara and Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco .
Some of his best paintings are now housed outside Ecuador. Two are in the United States Library of Congress, two in the Modern Art section of the Vatican Museum, and one is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Martínez died on November 26, 1909, at the age of 40, and is buried at the Municipal Cemetery of Ambato. [2]
El desencanto de Miguel García (1929) Obras de Benjamín Carrión; Nuevas Cartas al Ecuador; Los Creadores de la Nueva América; Mapa de America (1931) San Miguel de Unamuno; Santa Gabriela Mistral; Puerto Rico; Índice de la Poesía Ecuatoriana Contemporánea; Por Qué Jesús No Vuelve; El Santo del Patíbulo; Atahuallpa (1934) El Cuento de ...
Enrique Gil Gilbert (July 8, 1912 – February 21, 1973) was an Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, poet, and a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of Ecuador.. Gil Gilbert was born and died in the coastal city of Guayaquil, and was the youngest member of the Guayaquil Group, which was one of the most renowned literary and intellectual groups in Ecuador in 1930–40.