Iván Ulchur (born in Timbio, Cauca, 1950) is a

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professor at

Universidad San Francisco de Quito Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first l ...

. He is a writer and columnist in

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: ''Eku ...

, where he has lived with his family since 1987. He has written five books, two of which are essays on

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n theater, ''Imágenes de la Violencias'' and ''Teatro de Enrique Buenaventura'', and one published in 1997 on the work of Gabriel García Marquez, ''Del Humor y otros Dominios''. His other three books are fictional and vary from short stories, ''Muerte Profunda más allá de la ilusión'', and ''Magnuscritos'', to a recently published

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, ''Las No Veladas Vidas de Magnus Shorter'' (Editorial Norma, Ecuador, 2004). As a columnist he has written for two Ecuadorian newspapers: '' El Comercio'' and ''El Hoy''. He obtained his

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at Austin in 1987, and worked as a visiting professor in Berea College,

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, from 2001 to 2003. Though he was born in

, most of his work has been published in Ecuador.

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Texas State

''El Hoy''
Living people Colombian emigrants to Ecuador Ecuadorian columnists Ecuadorian male writers University of Texas at Austin alumni Berea College faculty Academic staff of Universidad San Francisco de Quito 1950 births {{Ecuador-writer-stub