Ecuador

Jorge Enrique Adoum
Born: ?? ??? 1926 -- Ambato, Ecuador
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Poet, novelist, dramatist, critic
Achievements:
  1. Ecuadorean National Prize for Poetry (1952)
  2. Casa de las Américas Prize (1960)
  3. Mexican Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1976)
  4. Ecuadorean Eugenio Espejo National Prize for Culture (1989)

Demétrio Aguilera Malta
Born: 24 MAY 1909 -- Guayaquil, Ecuador
Died: 29 DEC 1981
Type: Prose Writer
Achievements:
  1. Cultural attaché in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay
  2. Made an internationally acclaimed documentary film on the Rio de Janeiro carnival

Jorge Carrera Andrade
Born: 18 SEP 1903 -- Quito
Died: 11 NOV 1976 -- Quito
Type: Poet, prose writer
Achievements:

José de la Cuadra
Born: 03 SEP 1903 -- Guayaquil, Ecuador
Died: ?? ??? 1941 -- Guayaquil
Type: Prose writer, journalist
Achievements:

Jorge Icaza
Born: 10 JUL 1906 -- Quito
Died: 26 MAY 1978
Type: Prose writer, dramatist
Achievements:
  1. Co-founder of Ecuador's Syndicate of Artists and Writers (????)
  2. National Prize for Literature (1936)

Juan León Mera
Born: 28 JUN 1832 -- Ambato, Ecuador
Died: 13 DEC 1894 -- Ambato
Type: Prose writer, poet
Achievements:
  1. Composed the song adopted as the National Anthem (1865)

Alicia Yánez Cossío
Born: ?? ??? 1929 -- Quito
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. First Prize for a literary competition sponsored by Guayaquil's leading newspaper, El Universo (1972)