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Alicia Yánez Cossío
Alicia Yáñez Cossío (born December 10, 1928, in Quito ) is a prominent Ecuatoriana, Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. Yáñez Cossio is one of the leading figures in Culture of Ecuador, Ecuadorian literature and in Latin America, and she is the first Ecuadorian to win the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, which she received in 1996. In 2008 she received Ecuador's highest literary prize, the "Premio Eugenio Espejo" for her lifetime of work. Biography Daughter of Ing.el Alfonso Yánez Proaño and Clemencia Cossío Larrea. When she was six years old she entered the Sagrados Corazones School of Quito, where she stayed for a while due to academic failings stemming from a dislike of arithmetic. However, since she was young, Cossío she always desired to be a writer because of her great talent with words.Alicia Yánez Cossío#cite note-3, 3 Yáñez Cossío would later say: “I had an extremely happy childhood, maybe a bit boyish, infl ...
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