Alfredo Palacio Moreno ( Loja, August 9, 1912 –

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, April 20, 1998) was an Ecuadorian sculptor and painter. He was the director of the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil for 32 years. He was the father of the former Ecuadorian President Alfredo Palacio González (in office 2005-2007) and son of

Manuel Belisario Moreno Manuel Belisario Moreno (died 1917) was an Ecuadorian writer and priest. Belisario Moreno is best known as the author of the novel ''Naya o La Chapetona Naya o La Chapetona (1900) is a novel by the Ecuadorian priest Manuel Belisario Moreno. Mon ...

, who was known for writing the novel ''

Naya o La Chapetona Naya o La Chapetona (1900) is a novel by the Ecuadorian priest Manuel Belisario Moreno. Monument in Zamora In 2004 the municipality of Zamora, Ecuador, Zamora, Ecuador constructed, and placed in the center of town, a monument of "Naya o la Chap ...

''. He was awarded the national prize

Premio Eugenio Espejo The ''Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo'' ("Eugenio Espejo National Award") is the national prize of the nation of Ecuador. Decrees 677 and 699 (of August 1975 and September 1997, respectively) established the prize, which is conferred by the President ...

for his art in 1993 by the President of Ecuador.List of recipients of the Premio Eugenio Espejo and Spanish biographies

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreno, Alfredo Palacio Ecuadorian sculptors 1912 births 1998 deaths People from Loja, Ecuador 20th-century sculptors 20th-century Ecuadorian painters