Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio CortázarAmerican Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ](listen); was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.
Barcelona Sporting Club is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil, known best for its professional football team. They currently play in the Liga PRO Ecuador, the highest level of football in the country, and hold the distinction of being the only club in Ecuadorian history not to be relegated to the Serie B.
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco — born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco — was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel, he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil. The government of President Jaime Roldós Aguilera (1979–81) appointed him Chancellor of the Republic and he served as Foreign Minister of Ecuador (1979–80) and Ambassador to France (1983–84).
Same Love, Same Rain is a 1999 Argentine-American romantic comedy film directed by Juan José Campanella and written by Campanella and Fernando Castets. It stars Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Ulises Dumont and Eduardo Blanco.
Eduardo Maruri Miranda is an Ecuadorian businessman, President and Founding Member of MARURI Grey Global Group Ecuador, and former President of the Barcelona Sporting Club Soccer Team of Ecuador.
José de la Cuadra was an Ecuadorian social realist writer, whose short stories are among the most important in Ecuadorian literature.
Eduardo Halfon is a Guatemalan writer.
Demetrio Aguilera Malta was an Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat. He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings. He used magical realism in his masterpiece Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970), which was translated into English as Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.
Joaquín Gallegos Lara was an Ecuadorian social realist novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist.
The Guayaquil Group was a literary group from the 1930s - mid 1940s, that emerged as a response to a chaotic social and political climate where the Ecuadorian "montubio" and mestizo were oppressed by the elite class, priests, and the police. It was composed of five main writers: Joaquín Gallegos Lara, Enrique Gil Gilbert, Demetrio Aguilera Malta, José de la Cuadra, and Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco. Their works aimed to portray "social realism" as a form of displaying the real Ecuadorian montubio and cholo. The group eventually disintegrates after the death of two of their writers, José de la Cuadra and Joaquín Gallegos Lara, the inactivity in literature by Enrique Gil Gilbert, and the long trips away from Ecuador by Demetrio Aguilera Malta and Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco in the mid 1940s.
Aminta Buenaño Rugel is an Ecuadorian writer and politician.
Abdón Ubidia (1944) is an Ecuadorian writer who is considered one of the most representative and relevant voices of modern Ecuadorian literature. He was the 2012 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by President Rafael Correa.
Rafael Díaz Ycaza was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, short story writer, and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
Jorge Swett Palomeque was an Ecuadorian muralist, painter, lawyer and writer.
Nicolás Kingman Riofrío was an Ecuadorian journalist, writer and politician.
No entren al 1408: Antología en español tributo a Stephen King is a collection of horror stories by 22 Spanish-language authors, which aims to pay tribute to the style of the horror master Stephen King. The book was edited by the Ecuadorian writer Jorge Luis Cáceres. These books entitled “No entren al 1408” and “King, tributo al rey del terror”, have three editions: Ecuador, 2013; Mexico, 2014 and Argentina, 2015, and are written by 30 writers from: Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain.
Jorge Eduardo Velasco Mackenzie is an Ecuadorian writer and professor. His most popular novel is El rincón de los justos (1983) about Guayaquil's lumpen proletariat.
Juan Eduardo Zúñiga Amaro is a Spanish writer, Slavonic scholar, Portuguese scholar, literary critic and translator. He is considered among the most important living Spanish writers, alongside novelists like Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Eduardo Mendoza and Andrés Pascual, all of them included in the so-called Spanish New Narrative.
Leonardo Valencia is an Ecuadorian writer. He was born in Guayaquil, and studied in Ecuador and Spain, where he obtained a PhD in literary theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He also created the university's creative writing program and ran it for several years.
