Jorge Enrique Adoum

Jorge Enrique Adoum was born in Ambato on 29 June 1926, the son of a writer who had come from Lebanon. A student in Quito and then in Santiago de Chile, he was for nearly two years Pablo Neruda's secretary. A UNESCO grant took him in 1963 to Egypt, India and Japan; as the military dictatorship prevented him from returning, he lived in Beijing, then in Geneva and Paris, where he worked for international organisations. A poet above all, he returned in 1987, received the Eugenio Espejo prize in 1989 and died in Quito on 3 July 2009.

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• NovelEntre Marx y una mujer desnudaJorge Enrique Adoum · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature