Author · Ecuador
Jorge Icaza
Died in 1978
Jorge Icaza was born in Quito in 1906 and lost his father at the age of three. He came to literature through the theatre, first as an actor and then as an author of social plays, until the censorship of one of them, in 1933, turned him towards the novel. He opened a bookshop in Quito, was cultural attaché in Buenos Aires, headed the National Library, then represented his country as ambassador to the Soviet Union in the seventies. He died in Quito on 26 May 1978, at the age of seventy-one.
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- NovelThe VillagersHuasipungoJorge Icaza · 1934Literature