Ileana Espinel

Ileana Espinel Cedeño was born in Guayaquil in the early thirties, to a father who was a customs officer turned pharmacist, who died when she was thirteen, and a mother who was a teacher, whose pupils' work she helped to correct; she wrote verse at ten. She left journalism school after a year and a half, founded with six young poets of her city, the only woman in the group, the Club 7, and in 1956 became the first woman member of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. A journalist, she was a municipal councillor of Guayaquil from 1967 to 1970. She died on 21 February 2001.

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• PoetryPiezas líricasIleana Espinel · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature