Juan Valdano Morejón (born 1939) is an Ecuadorian writer. He was born in Cuenca in 1939. He studied at the

University of Cuenca The University of Cuenca (Spanish: ''Universidad de Cuenca'') is an Ecuadorian university located in Cuenca. University of Cuenca is the principal university of Azuay Province. The university was officially founded in 1867, being the first unive ...

(winning the Benigno Malo award for best graduate),

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

and the

University of Aix-en-Provence Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II o ...

. He taught literature and literary theory at the

and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. He has published some 20 books in a variety of genres: novels, short stories and essays. He has won several literary awards, among them * Premio Nacional José de la Cuadra for the short story collection ''Las huellas recogidas'' (1989) * Condecoración al Mérito Cultural for the novel ''Anillos de serpiente'' (1998) * Premio Nacional Joaquín Gallegos Lara also for ''Anillos de serpiente'' (1998) Other notable works include ''La celada'', ''Juegos de Proteo'', and the novel ''Mientras llega el día'', which was adapted to the cinema in 2004 by the director

Camilo Luzuriaga Camilo Luzuriaga (born in Loja, Ecuador 1953) is an Ecuadorian film producer, actor, writer, photographer, and director. Filmmaking Luzuriaga has produced, directed, edited, and written various movies, short films, and documentaries. Luzuriaga ...

. He is a member of the National Academy of History of Ecuador and a corresponding member of the Colombian Academy of History and the Royal Academy of History. He is also a Full Member of the Ecuadorian Academy of the Language and corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He has been an opinion columnist for the newspaper '' El Comercio'' of Quito since 2010. He has also received honours such as the José Peralta National Prize, the Fray Vicente Solano award and the National Award for Cultural Merit. In August 2020, Juan Valdano received the Eugenio Espejo national prize in literature, conferred by then-president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno.

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