Eliécer Cárdenas

Eliécer Cárdenas Espinoza was born in the province of Cañar on 10 December 1950. A militant in his youth, he was suspended from several schools and arrested under Velasco Ibarra, then studied law at the Central University in Quito. He published his first stories in 1971 and later presided over the Casa de la Cultura of Azuay. A novelist, short story writer and playwright, he left an abundant body of work, from the bandits of the south to figures from the country's history. He died on 26 September 2021, aged seventy.

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• NovelPolvo y cenizaEliécer Cárdenas · 1979not translated into EnglishLiterature