César Dávila Andrade

César Dávila Andrade was born on 5 October 1918 in Cuenca. Without completing a regular education, he worked as a clerk at the Superior Court of Justice, then as a proofreader at the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. A poet and storyteller, author of Catedral salvaje and of the stories of Cabeza de gallo, he was nicknamed "el Fakir" for his thinness and his taste for mysticism. Settled in Venezuela, a journalist in Caracas and a professor at the University of the Andes in Mérida, he died in Caracas on 2 May 1967.

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• PoetryBoletín y elegía de las mitasCésar Dávila Andrade · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature