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List Of Ecuadorians
This is a list of notable Ecuadorians. This list needs to be edited. See Presidents section. Arts Literature and journalism * Carmen Acevedo Vega (1913–2006) - poet and writer * Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926–2009) - poet and novelist * Luis Aguilar-Monsalve (b. 1942) - writer * Demetrio Aguilera Malta (1909–1981) - writer * Gabriela Alemán (b. 1968) - novelist and short story writer * Carlos Altamirano Sánchez (b. 1926) - poet and journalist * Vicente Amador Flor (1903–1975) - poet * María Fernanda Ampuero (b. 1976) - journalist, short story writer * Juan Andrade Heymann (b. 1945) - novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer * Raúl Andrade Moscoso (1905–1983) - journalist and playwright * César E. Arroyo (1887–1937) - poet, novelist, journalist, playwright and diplomat * Enrique Avellán Ferrés (1904–1984) - novelist and playwright * Juan Bautista Aguirre (1725–1786) - poet and writer from colonial South America * Pablo Balarezo Moncayo (1904–1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Ekuatur Nunka''), is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about west of the mainland. The country's capital and largest city is Quito. The territories of modern-day Ecuador were once home to a variety of Indigenous groups that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century. The territory was colonized by Spain during the 16th century, achieving independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colombia, from which it emerged as its own sovereign state in 1830. The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, with most of its mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Borja
Arturo Borja Pérez (1892 – November 13, 1912) was an Ecuadorian poet who was part of a group known as the "Generación decapitada" (Decapitated Generation). He was the first in the group to excel as a modernist poet. He did not produce a lot of poetry, but the small amount of poetry he produced showed great quality. He published twenty poems in a book titled ''La flauta de ónix'', and six other poems were published posthumously. The group is called "decapitada", or decapitated, because all its members committed suicide at a young age. Biography Borja was born in Quito in 1892, a direct descendant of the third Duke of Gandía. His father, Luis Felipe Borja Perez, sent him to Paris to treat a disease in his eye when he was just entering adolescence. Borja quickly mastered the French language. Soon he began to read the Symbolist poets, especially Baudelaire and Verlaine. His favorite verses were from Mallarmé, Samain, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, etc. With respect to his relationship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Carvajal
Iván Carvajal Aguirre (born 1948 in San Gabriel, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian poet, philosopher and writer. In 1984 he received Ecuador's National Prize for Literature, the "Aurelio Espinosa Pólit" prize, for his work entitled "Parajes". In February 2013 he won the Premio a las Libertades Juan Montalvo. Carvajal lives in Quito, Ecuador, and works as a Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) (English: ''Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador'') is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito, Ecuador. History The university opened in the fall of 1946, with Carlo .... He directs ''País Secreto'' magazine and is project director oCorporación Cultural Orogenia Most of his work is devoted to poetry, though recently he has published some of his reflections on Ecuadorian poets ("A la zaga del animal imposible") and culture and politics in Ecuador ("¿Volver a tener patria?"). Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamín Carrión Mora
Benjamín Akoto Asamoah (born 4 January 1994) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Cypriot club Doxa as a midfielder. Club career Born in Accra, Benjamín arrived at the youth academy of Atlético Madrid from the Rayo Majadahonda counterpart in 2012. After a stint with Atlético Madrid C, he was promoted to the B-team in 2012. On 29 May 2015, his contract was extended by the club till June 2017. On 3 August 2016, he moved to fellow Spanish club Hospitalet. On 6 August 2017, Benjamín joined Cypriot First Division club Doxa Doxa (; from verb )Henry Liddell, Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott (philologist), Robert Scott. 1940.δοκέω" In ''A Greek–English Lexicon, A Greek-English Lexicon'', edited by Henry Stuart Jones, H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Oxford. ... where he was assigned the 17 number jersey. Club statistics References External links *La Preferente profile* {{DEFAULTSORT:Benjamin 1994 births Living people Association football midfielder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Carrión De Fierro
Fanny Carrión de Fierro (born 1936) is an Ecuadorian poet, literary critic, essayist and university professor. Life and career She received a Doctorate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (Quito, 1981), as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor's degree (Licenciatura) in Education from the Central University of Ecuador. She has written and published essays on several topics, including political, cultural and social issues. These include essays on gender issues, human rights, children's rights, the indigenous movement, and linguistics. Her poems have also been included in several anthologies, including ''These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women'' (1994) and ''Eye to Eye-Women: Their Words and Worlds'' (1997). In the fall 2006 elections, she wrote and published electronically an essay titled "Towards the Fifth Power", on the importance of civil society participation to consolid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Carrión Aguirre
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander ( Czech, Polish), Alexandre (French), Alexandros ( Greek), Alsander ( Irish), Alessandro ( Italian), Aleksandr ( Russian), and Alasdair (Gaelic). People with the given name Alejandro * Alejandro Alvizuri, Peruvian backstroke swimmer * Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-born Spanish director * Alejandro Aranda, American singer, musician, and reality television personality * Alejandro Arguello, Mexican footballer * Alejandro Avila, Mexican TV actor * Alejandro Awada, Argentine actor * Alejandro Betts, Argentine historian * Alejandro Bermúdez, Colombian swimmer * Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine architect * Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and novelist * Alejandro Casañas, Cuban hurdler * Alejandro Castillo, Mexican footballer * Alejandro Cercas, Spanish politician * Alejandro Chataing, Venezuelan architect * Alejandro Cichero, Venezuelan footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978. During his life and after his death he has been recognized with Jorge Luis Borges, Vicente Huidobro, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Cesar Vallejo as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Writing and diplomatic career His writing was published in Aurora Estrada y Ayala's literary magazine, "Proteo" which she started in 1922. Other contributors to the magazine included future Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral. From 1928 to 1933 Carrera first experienced traveling in Europe. He served as Ecuadorian Consul in Peru, France, Japan and the United States. Later he became Ambassador to Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Nicaragua, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He also served as Secretary of State of Ecuador. While living in the United States, Carrera developed many literary re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hipatia Cárdenas De Bustamante
Hipatia Cárdenas de Bustamante (also known by her pseudonym Aspacia) (1889–1972) was an Ecuadorian writer, politician, suffragist, and feminist. Biography Cárdenas was born in 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 o ... on March 23, 1889 to politician and legal expert Alejandro Cárdenas and to Ana Navarro Nájera. Together with Zoila Ugarte de Landívar (1864-1969), Cárdenas was one of the pioneers fighting for women's suffrage in Ecuador. In 1929, she became the first female state councilor, and in 1932, she was the first female presidential candidate. She fought for the continued right for women's suffrage after controversy following the establishment of women's suffrage in 1929. In 1943, she published ''Gold, red and blue; she also worked for ''El Día'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliécer Cárdenas
Eliécer Cárdenas Espinosa (Cañar Province, Ecuador, Cañar, 10 December 1950 – 26 September 2021) was an Ecuadorian novelist. Life and career In his youth he went from school to school because he questioned the repressive systems and was suspended various times. For example, he attended meetings of the Young Socialists, with whom he fought against the Ministry of Education for free college enrollments, and he was arrested in 1970 during the dictatorship of José María Velasco Ibarra, Velasco Ibarra. In 1976 he graduated from the School of Jurisprudence of the Central University of Ecuador with a degree in Social Sciences. In Cuenca, Ecuador, Cuenca he married Carmen Patiño Ullauri. From 1977 to 1978 he wrote the novel ''Polvo y ceniza'' (Dust and Ashes), which he entered into a novel contest held by the House of Ecuadorian Culture for writers under 40, and he won first prize. The book, published in 1979, is the most sold novel in Ecuador. The novel put Cárdenas in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Antonio Campos
José Antonio Campos (1868–1939) was an Ecuadorian writer and journalist. He used the pseudonym Jack the Ripper in his newspaper reports. Born in the port of Guayaquil , motto = Por Guayaquil Independiente en, For Independent Guayaquil , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Ecuador#South America , pushpin_re ..., Campos studied at the Colegio San Vicente del Guayas. At the age of 17, he left home and boarded the Chilean navy ship "Pilcomayo", where he remained on board for several months. Upon his return to Guayaquil, he married Mercedes María Morlás. He began his journalism career in 1887, at the humorous weekly ''El Marranillo''. He specialized in " costumbrista" descriptions of life on the coast, and he was a witness to the Great Fire of Guayaquil of 1896. He wrote for many outlets, among them El Telégrafo, Grito del Pueblo, El Cóndor, El Tiempo, El Independiente, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswaldo Calisto Rivera
Oswaldo Calisto Rivera, also known as Cachibache (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 o ..., September 22, 1979 – October 10, 2000) was an Ecuadorian poet and artist who completed over 100 paintings. Poetry "Rojo encanto de la marmota" (2001) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Calisto Rivera, Oswaldo 1979 births 2000 deaths Ecuadorian artists Writers from Quito 20th-century Ecuadorian poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Luis Cáceres
Jorge Luis Cáceres (Quito, 1982) is an Ecuadorian writer, editor, and anthologist. Career He was recognized as one of "the 34 Latin American authors of unquestionable literary quality" in the 2012 Guadalajara International Book Fair. He has written the short story books ''Desde las sombras'' (2007), ''La flor del frío'' (2009), and ''Aquellos extraños días en los que brillo'' (2011). As an anthologist he prepared a collection of stories by Ecuadorian writers born between 1976 and 1982 for the National Autonomous University of Mexico under the title ''Lo que haremos cuando la ficción se agote'' (México, 2011) and a Spanish anthology tribute to Stephen King, ''No entren al 1408 "Do Not Enter Room 1408: A Spanish Anthology Tribute to Stephen King" or "King: Tribute to the King of Terror" is an anthology of stories selected by the writer Jorge Luis Cáceres, featuring contributions from several of the most important author ...'' (2013). His stories appear in the anthologies '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |