Aleyda Quevedo
Aleyda Quevedo Rojas (born 1972, Quito) is an Ecuadorian poet and journalist. She is considered one of the most relevant voices in contemporary Latin American poetry. Among her best-known works are the poems ''Algunas rosas verdes'' (1996), for which she won the Jorge Carrera Andrade Award of that year, and ''Soy mi cuerpo'' (2006), in which she uses the human figure as an escape from the fears and anguish provoked by death. In 2017, the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, House of Ecuadorian Culture published the book ''Cierta manera de la luz sobre el cuerpo'', a compilation of Quevedo's poems to that point. Writer Jesús David Curbelo described Quevedo's work as the "witness of a life and a supplier of feelings in which she scrutinizes first the body, then emotions, then finally the mind." In July 2018, Quevedo attended a colloquium commemorating Jorge Carrera Andrade with writers César Eduardo Carrión, Javier Cevallos Perugachi, José Gregorio Vásquez, Jesús David Curbelo, ...
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Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes, at an elevation of , making it the second-highest capital city in the world.Contact Us
" TAME. Retrieved on 14 March 2010. Quito is the political and cultural center of Ecuador as the country's major governmental, administrative, and cultural institutions are located within the city. The majority of transnational companies with a presence in Ecuador are headquartered there. It is also one of the country's two major industrial centers—the port city of