Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992)
Alejandro Carrión
/ref> was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel ''La espina'' (1959), the short story book ''La manzana dañada'' (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym " Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine '' La Calle''. He directed the literary magazine '' Letras del Ecuador''. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión and Clodoveo Carrión.
Biography
The journalist
Alejandro Carrión wrote articles and political commentary in the following periodicals and newspapers:
Newspapers
*'' El Tiempo'', Bogotá
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, 1947
*'' La Tierra'', Quito 1942–1948
*'' El Sol'', Quito, 1950;
*'' La Razón'', Guayaquil
Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is ...
, 1968–1969
*'' El Universo'', Guayaquil, 1948–1968
*'' Diario Las Américas'', Miami
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, 1970–1979
*'' Diario El Comercio'', Quito 1980–1992
Magazines
*Revista de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1945–1950
*'' Letras del Ecuador'', 1945–1950
*''Sábado'', Bogotá, 1947
*''La Calle'', Quito 1959–1969
*''Vistazo'', Guayaquil 1969–1992;
*''Américas'', Washington, D.C., 1977–1979
*Revista de la Sociedad Jurídico-Literaria, 1981–1982
Bibliography
Poetry
A selection of Alejandro Carrión's poetry was recorded in Quito for the Library of Congress
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in Washington; a copy of that recording is housed at Harvard University
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's "House of the Poetry". Alejandro told of his emotional reaction to hearing his own words when visiting in the company of the poet Archibald McLeish: "small satisfactions that illuminate the life of a poet."
* Poemas de un portero - ''Poems of a Doorman'' (1932–1934)
* Luz del nuevo paisaje - ''Light of the New Landscape'' (1934–1935)
* Poesía de la soledad y el deseo - ''Poetry of Solitude and Desire'' (1934–1939)
* Agonía del árbol y la sangre - ''Agony of the Tree and the Blood'' (1934–1944)
* La noche oscura - ''Dark Night'' (1934–1954)
* La sangre sobre la tierra - ''The Blood on the Earth'' (1946–1957)
* Nunca! Nunca - ''Never! Never'' (1955–1957)
* El Tiempo que pasa - "Time that Passes" (1957–1962)
* Poeta y peregrino - "Poet and Traveler" (1960–1965)
* Poesia primera jornadad - "Poetry anthology, the early years" (1932–1957)
* Poesia segunda jornada - "Poetry anthology, the final years" (1957–1984)
* Aquí, España Nuestra!, tres poemas en esperanza y amargura (1938)
* Cuaderno de canciones (1954)
Canto a la América Española
(1954)
Novel
*195
Short Story
*1968 Muerte en su Isla
*1970 La llave perdida
*1978 Mala procesión de hormigas
*198
*1983 Divino tesoro
*1983 Una pequeña muerte
History
*1954 Primicias de la poesía quiteña
*1957 Los poetas quiteños de "El Ocioso en Faenza"
*1978 La otra historia, ensayos
*1992 Antología General de la Poesía Ecuatoriana durante la Colonia Española
*1992 El último rincón del mundo
Prose
*1948 Los compañeros de Don Quixote
, the full title being ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'', is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and is of ...
*1948 Elogio de la novela policíaca
*1972 Los Colores del Sueño
*1983 Nuestro Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bol ...
*1983 Galería de retratos
*1983 Los caminos de Dios
*1983 Gana de hablar
*1983 En el país de los Golillas
*1983 La pavimentación del infierno
Journalism
*1983 Esta vida de Quito por Juan sin Cielo
*1992 Una Cierta Sonrisa
References
External links
Early poetry
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Ecuadorian male short story writers
Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners
People from Loja, Ecuador
1915 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Ecuadorian poets
Ecuadorian male poets
20th-century Ecuadorian short story writers
20th-century Ecuadorian male writers