Horacio Hidrovo Velásquez ( Santa Ana, May 20, 1902 -

Portoviejo Portoviejo (), also known as San Gregorio de Portoviejo, is a city in Ecuador, and the capital of the Province of Manabí from the Pacific coast. It is still known as the city of the "Royal Tamarind Trees" due to former Tamarind plantains in the ...

, April 19, 1962) was an

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poet, novelist, and short story writer. In 1957 he was the President of the

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, Manabi branch. He was the father of the Ecuadorian poet Horacio Hidrovo Peñaherrera (1931-2012). In 1961 the Ecuadorian government honored him with the Educational Merit Award. His best known novel is ''Un Hombre y un Río'' (A Man and A River) (1957). In 1975 his son Horacio published a collection of his poems under the title "Canción de las Voces Infinitas" (Song of the Infinite Voices), but it was not a complete collection because a great number of Hidrovo Velásquez's poems were printed in numerous magazines that are difficult to find today.Complete Spanish biography of Horacio Hidrovo Velásquez by Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel
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Works

* “Libro Prematuro” (1920) * “Cause" * “Jinetes en la Noche” (1948) * “Dimensión del Dolor” (1951) * “Pecado de Agua Clara” * “Un Hombre y un Río” (1957) * "La mujer que nació así" (1927)

References

Ecuadorian male writers People from Santa Ana Canton 1902 births 1962 deaths {{Poetry-stub