Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco was born in Guayaquil on 12 October 1908, into a ruined family, and had to support his own from the age of fourteen, after his father's death. He left for New York as a ship's boy and stayed there about a year. A member of the Guayaquil group and a history teacher, he was imprisoned and then exiled to Chile under the dictatorship of Federico Páez and worked in Santiago for the Ercilla publishing house. A diplomat from 1944 and a historian of his country, he was minister of Foreign Affairs in 1979 and 1980, then ambassador to France. He died in Quito in May 1993.

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• NovelBaldomeraAlfredo Pareja Diezcanseco · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature