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Nelson Estupiñán Bass

ネルソン・エスツピニャン・バス

Nerason Esutupinyan Basu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1912-09-19 （Súa, Atacames Canton, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador）
Died
2002-03-03 （Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States） age 89
Nationality
Ecuadorian
Languages
Spanish
Residence History
Esmeraldas Province → Quito

Career

Occupations
Writer, Poet
Active Years
1932-2002
Affiliations
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
Influenced By
Pan-Africanism
Influenced
Afro-Ecuadorian literature
Nominations
Nobel Prize in Literature nomination (1998)

Education

Escuela Superior Juan Montalvo
Public Accounting
Degree: 公認会計士学位
Period: 不明
Year of Graduation: 1932
Country: Ecuador

Awards

Premio Eugenio Espejo
1993
Organization: Government of Ecuador
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Cuando los guayacanes florecían

1950 Novel

Depicts the plight of Afro-Ecuadorians during Ecuador's Liberal Revolution of 1895.

Afro-EcuadoriansPan-Africanism

El último río

1966 Novel

Canto negro por la luz

1954 Poetry

Bibliography

  • Cuando los guayacanes florecían (1954)
  • El paraíso (1958)
  • El último río (1966)
  • Senderos brillantes (1974)
  • Las puertas del verano (1978)
  • Toque de queda (1978)
  • Bajo el cielo nublado (1981)
  • Los canarios pintaron el aire de amarillo (1993)
  • Al norte de Dios (1994)
  • Canto negro por la luz (1954)
  • Timarán y Cuabú (1956)
  • Las huellas digitales (1971)
  • Las tres carabelas (1973)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Black aestheticsSocialist perspective
Recurring Motifs
African DiasporaEsmeraldas culture

Health

  • Pneumonia
    2002年
    Cause of death

Legacy

Remembered as one of Ecuador's most prolific Afro-Latin American writers.

In Popular Culture

  • Symbol of Afro-Ecuadorian literature

Trivia

  • Identified with the Communist Party
  • First prominent Afro-Ecuadorian writer