Aminta Buenaño Rugel (born

Santa Lucía Canton Santa Lucía Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Guayas Province. Its capital is the town of Santa Lucía. Its population at the 2001 census was 33,868. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: *Montubio 57.2% ...

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, 1958) is an

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

ian writer and politician. She has worked for the publication ''

El Universo ( Spanish for "The Universe") is one of the largest daily newspapers in Ecuador. It was founded in 1921 and the first edition was published September 16 of the same year. Its headquarters are located in Guayaquil. The newspaper has been publi ...

'', in

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 ...

. In 2007, she joined

Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly The Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly was a 2007–2008 constitutional assembly in Ecuador, which drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008. On 30 September 2007 an election for a consti ...

, as a member of

PAIS Alliance The Revolutionary and Democratic Ethical Green Movement (, MOVER) was a centre to centre-right neoliberal political party in Ecuador. In 2016, it had 979,691 members. Until 2021 it was known as the PAIS Alliance (Proud and Sovereign Homeland) (P ...

. She was congressional vice-president. She has also helped write the

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. She was appointed in 2011 as Ecuador's ambassador to Spain, and in 2014 as ambassador to

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Prizes

*International Short Story Award Jauja de Valladolid (1979). *National Short Story Award

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Works

*''La mansión de los sueños'' (Guayaquil, 1985) *''La otra piel'' (Guayaquil, 1992) *''Mujeres divinas'' (2006)

Anthologies

*''Mujeres ecuatorianas en el relato'' (1988) *''Primera Bienal del Cuento Ecuatoriano "Pablo Palacio"'' (Quito, 1991) *''Veintiún cuentistas ecuatorianos'' (Quito, 1996) *''Antología de narradoras ecuatorianas'' (Quito, 1997) *''40 cuentos ecuatorianos'' (Quito, 1997) *''Antología básica del cuento ecuatoriano'' (Quito, 1998)

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