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Adalberto Ortiz

Died in 2003

Adalberto Ortiz Quiñónez was born in Esmeraldas on 9 February 1914 and was raised by his grandmother. A schoolteacher who graduated in 1937 from the Juan Montalvo teacher training college in Quito, he taught, then was a diplomat and secretary of the House of Culture of Guayas. A poet of black and mulatto songs, a storyteller and a painter, he gave a voice to Afro-Ecuadorian culture. He received the Eugenio Espejo Prize in 1995 and died in Guayaquil on 1 February 2003, aged eighty-eight.

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