La noche oscura is a poetry book by Alejandro Carrión first published by the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana at the urging of the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, then vice-president. This book includes a complete version of the poem Tiniebla first published by the National University of Colombia thanks to the poet and novelist Jaime Ibáñez. Also included is the poem "Jonás" which Luis Cardoza y Aragón claimed to be one of his favorites. “Invitación a la fiesta de la tristeza” was first published in Ecuador 0.0.0, the poetry magazine of Alexander Finisterre. This book deserved an extensive critique by Matilde Elena Lopez.
Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora was an Ecuadorian writer, diplomat and cultural promoter.
Jorge Enrique Adoum was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first Casa de las Américas Prize in Cuba, the most important honor in Latin American letters. Though hailed by Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda as the best poet of his generation in Latin America, Adoum’s work is unknown in the English-speaking world.
Aníbal Villacís was a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials. As a teenager, Villacís taught himself drawing and composition by studying and recreating the illustrated ad posters for bullfights in Quito. In 1952, Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, former President of Ecuador, discovered Villacís and offered him a scholarship to study in Paris.
Iván Carvajal Aguirre is an Ecuadorian poet, philosopher and writer. In 1984 he received Ecuador's National Prize for Literature, the "Aurelio Espinosa Pólit" prize, for his work entitled "Parajes". In February 2013 he won the Premio a las Libertades Juan Montalvo.
Jorge Icaza Coronel, commonly referred to as Jorge Icaza, was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel Huasipungo, which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadorian whites.
Fanny Carrión de Fierro is an Ecuadorian poet, literary critic, essayist and university professor.
Karina Galvez is an Ecuadorian American poet.
Violeta Luna is an Ecuadorian poet, essayist, professor and literary critic.
Gerardo Guevara is one of the key composers in Ecuador. His work combines native music with contemporary techniques.
Julio Pazos Barrera is a poet, writer, teacher, and cook.
Carmen Acevedo Vega was an Ecuadorian poet, writer, and journalist.
Alfredo Gangotena Fernandez Salvador was an Ecuadorian poet who wrote in French and Spanish.
José Enrique Ojeda was an Ecuadorian-born writer and academic. A professor at Boston College for 30 years, he was the author of several books about Latin American literature, and was called "the world's leading authority" on Ecuadoran poet Jorge Carrera Andrade. Ojeda also wrote extensively on Ecuadoran novelist Jorge Icaza.
María de las Mercedes Jijón de Vivanco y Chiriboga was the first First Lady of Ecuador, serving in that capacity twice alongside her husband, Juan José Flores.
Efraín Andrade Viteri was an Ecuadorian painter known as "The Painter of the Négritude Esmeraldeña".
Humberto Vinueza Rodríguez was an Ecuadorian poet and writer. He lived in both Guayaquil and Quito in his youth, and went to study engineering in the USSR. His literary awakening happened in high school, when he encountered the works of Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Alfredo Gangotena, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Gonzalo Escudero, etc. He wrote some 15 books of poetry, winning several awards. He won the Jorge Carrera Andrade National Award twice, in 1991 for Alias Lumbre de Acertijo, and in 2007 for Constelación del instinto. In 2012 the Casa de las Américas awarded him the José Lezama Lima Ibero-American Poetry Prize.
Paco Benavides was an Ecuadorian writer and painter.
César Humberto Andrade y Cordero (1904-1987) was an Ecuadorian poet, short story writer, journalist and lawyer.
Aurora Estrada y Ayala was an Ecuadorian poet, columnist, narrator, educator, politician.
