Alicia Yánez Cossío

Alicia Yánez Cossío was born in Quito in 1928, or in 1929 according to other sources, the daughter of an engineer, in a large family. Brought up by the nuns of the Sacred Hearts, she nearly failed because of arithmetic and read Jules Verne and Tarzan. She published her first poems in 1949, lived in Cuba from the end of the fifties until 1961, then taught in Quito. Admitted to the Ecuadorian Academy of the Language in 1991, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1996 and the Eugenio Espejo Prize in 2008.

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• NovelBruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping CityBruna, soroche y los tíosAlicia Yánez Cossío · 1973Literature