José María Egas (

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, 1896 - 1982) was an

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ian poet. Many of his poems were turned into the lyrics of " pasillos". Egas studied law at the

University of Guayaquil The University of Guayaquil (Spanish: ''Universidad de Guayaquil''), known colloquially as the ''Estatal'' (i.e., "the State niversity), is a public university in Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador. Estatal was founded in 1883. It is the old ...

graduated in 1927. He was then active as a lawyer and journalist, but became best ko wn for his poetry, being appointed national poet laureate in 1976. He served as a professor at the University of Guayaquil.John D. Martz -''Politics and Petroleum in Ecuador'' 1987 Page 90 (re CIA involvement in Ecuadorian politics in the 1970s) "In an April 1984 interview, one of the prominent Ecuadoreans involved at the time, José Maria Egas, explained the reasoning which he and some other Ecuadoreans had found acceptable at the time. By this time, Egas had come to rue these ..." He was the brother of the poet

Hugo Mayo Miguel Augusto Egas Miranda, better known by his pen name Hugo Mayo (November 24, 1895 in Manta – April 5, 1988 in Guayaquil , motto = Por Guayaquil Independiente en, For Independent Guayaquil , image_map ...

Biography

Born in Manta ( Manabí province), he was the son of don Carlos Egas Rodriguez and doña Rosalia Miranda Alarcón. He grows in a very well educated family present in Ecuador since the century XVII for his father part.

Works

* ''Poesía: Unción'' (1923) * ''Unción y otros poemas'' (1941) * ''El milagro'' (1941); Unción * ''El milagro y Otros poemas'' (1954) * ''Canto a Guayaquil'' (1960) * ''Poesías completas'' (Guayaquil, 1982. 2da. Ed) In anthologies: * ''Indice de la poesía ecuatoriana contemporánea'' (Santiago de Chile, 1937) * ''Otros modernistas'' (Guayaquil, s.f.) * ''Poesía viva del Ecuador'' (Quito, 1990) * ''La palabra perdurable'' (Quito, 1991) * ''Poesía modernista ecuatoriana'' (Quito, 1991).

References

Ecuadorian male poets 1896 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Ecuadorian poets 20th-century male writers University of Guayaquil alumni {{ecuador-bio-stub