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Edition 15 (2001) Winner
Filoteo Samaniego Salazar
フィロテオ・サマニエゴ・サラサール
Firoteo Samaniego Salazar
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1928-07-11 （Quito, Ecuador）
- Died
- 2013-02-21 （Quito, Ecuador） age 84
- Nationality
- Ecuadorian
- Languages
- Spanish
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Quito, Ecuador
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Poet, Historian, Translator, Diplomat
- Active Years
- 1949-2013
- Affiliations
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, Ecuadorian Academy of Language
- Memberships
- Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Premio Eugenio Espejo | — | — | Ecuador | Winner |
Premio Eugenio Espejo
2001
Organization:
Ecuador
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Sobre sismos y otros miedos
1991 NovelAgraz
1956 PoetryEcuador: un mundo verde junto al sol
1979 Non-fictionBibliography
- Agraz
- Relente
- Umiña
- Signos II
- El cuerpo desnudo de la tierra
- Los niños sordos
- Oficios del río
- Los testimonios
- La uña de Dios
- Sobre sismos y otros miedos
- Columnario quiteño
- Ecuador: un mundo verde junto al sol
- Habla y arte americanos
- Consta en las antologías: Lírica ecuatoriana contemporánea
- Poesía viva del Ecuador
- La palabra perdurable
Translations by Author
- Spanish translation of Chronique as Crónica (1961) by Saint-John Perse
Translations of Works
- English translation Ecuador: A Fertile Land Blessed by the Sun (1985, Editions Delroisse)
Legacy
Prominent Ecuadorian novelist, poet, historian, translator, and diplomat. Awarded the prestigious Premio Eugenio Espejo in 2001. Member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language since 1984, serving as secretary from 1996 to 2006.
Trivia
- Spanish naming convention: first surname (paternal) Samaniego, second (maternal) Salazar.