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Fernando Cazón Vera

フェルナンド・カソン・ベラ

Fernando Cazón Vera

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1935 (Quito)
Nationality
Ecuadorian
Languages
Spanish
Residence History
Quito → Guayaquil

Career

Occupations
poet, journalist, university professor
Active Years
1957-2018
Affiliations
Madrugada literary group, Newspapers La Hora, Expreso, Extra
Influenced By
Efraín Jara Idrovo, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Hugo Salazar Tamariz

Education

Colegio Vicente Rocafuerte
Country: Ecuador
University of Guayaquil
Country: Ecuador

Awards

Premio Eugenio Espejo
2018
Organization: Government of Ecuador
Result: winner
Award from the Municipality of Guayaquil
Organization: Municipality of Guayaquil
Result: winner
Award from Guayaquil Journalists Association
Organization: Guayaquil Journalists Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Las canciones salvadas

1957 poetry

Relevo de prueba

2005 poetry

Bibliography

  • Las canciones salvadas (1957)
  • El enviado (1958)
  • La guitarra rota (1967)
  • La misa (1967)
  • El extraño (1968)
  • Poemas comprometidos (1972)
  • El libro de las paradojas (1976)
  • El hijo pródigo (1977)
  • Las canciones salvadas (antología, 1980)
  • La pájara pinta (1984)
  • Rompecabezas (1986)
  • Este pequeño mundo (1996)
  • Cuando el río suena (1996)
  • A fuego lento (1998)
  • Relevo de prueba (2005)
  • La sombra degollada (2006)

Legacy

Ecuadorian poet and journalist associated with the Madrugada literary group. Received the Premio Eugenio Espejo, Ecuador's highest literary award, in 2018.

Trivia

  • His father was a German communist activist in exile from Nazi Germany, Jan Andries Jolles (alias Manuel Enrique Cazón Arribar).
  • Grew up surrounded by maternal family including writers Pedro Jorge Vera and Alfredo Vera Vera, and ballet dancer Noralma Vera Arrata.