Adalberto Ortiz
Adalberto Ortiz - born Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (February 9, 1914 – February 1, 2003) was a novelist, poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas, a province of Ecuador. Among his most important literary works we find his novel Juyungo (1942; English translation by Susan Hill and Jonathan Tittler 1983), his poetry collection Earth, Sound and Drum (1953), and the short story collection called Entundada (1971); His most defining feature as a writer was the incorporation of the elements of afro-American culture, enriching his literary vocabulary with its jargon, its elasticity and its rhythm. Ortiz's thematic focused around the identity of the afro-American within Latin-American society and its struggle towards social freedom, against oppression and secular exploitation.
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Adalberto Ortiz
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- Name
- Adalberto Ortiz
- Born
- February 9, 1914
- Birthplace
- Esmeraldas, Ecuador
- Place of death
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Occupation
- Novelist, Poet, Diplomat
- Awards
- Premio Eugenio Espejo (1995)
- Died
- 2003 · Guayaquil.
- Nationality
- Ecuador
- Known for
- Juyungo
- Honours
- Premio Eugenio Espejo
- Languages
- Spanish
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Adalberto Ortiz - born Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (February 9, 1914 – February 1, 2003) was a novelist, poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas, a province of Ecuador. Among his most important literary works we find his novel Juyungo (1942; English translation by Susan Hill and Jonathan Tittler 1983), his poetry collection Earth, Sound and Drum (1953), and the short story collection called Entundada (1971); His most defining feature as a writer was the incorporation of the elements of afro-American culture, enriching his literary vocabulary with its jargon, its elasticity and its rhythm. Ortiz's thematic focused around the identity of the afro-American within Latin-American society and its struggle towards social freedom, against oppression and secular exploitation.
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His body of work also preserves and rescues the elements of the psychology, idiosyncrasy, customs and slang of the afro-American culture. Facing the subject of the difference between classes, Ortiz used his characters to personalize and flesh out these political themes into very human and realistic stories. A specific point he touches in the novel Juyungo, for example, is the relationship of the Black and Mestizo races (personified by Lastre's descendant and the Mestizo Diaz). Outside of social commentary, Ortiz's prose is celebrated for its beauty and elegance. In 1995 the Ecuadorian Government awarded him with the Eugenio Espejo National Prize celebrating the entirety of his work.
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Key facts
• Name — Adalberto Ortiz • Born — February 9, 1914 • Birthplace — Esmeraldas, Ecuador • Place of death — Guayaquil, Ecuador • Occupation — Novelist, Poet, Diplomat • Awards — Premio Eugenio Espejo (1995)
Novels and short stories
Novels and short stories
• Juyungo (Buenos Aires, 1943) – (English translation by Susan Hill and Jonathan Tittler, Three Continents Press, Inc, Washington D.C., 1983) • El espejo y la ventana -National Award of the Journalist Union (Quito, 1967) • La envoltura del sueño (Guayaquil, 1982) • Los contrabandistas (México, 1945) • La mala espalda (Quito, 1952) • La entundada (Quito, 1971)
Poetry
Poetry
• Tierra son y tambor (México, 1945) • Camino y puerto de la angustia (México, 1945) • El vigilante insepulto (Quito, 1954) • El animal herido -antología- (Quito, 1959) • Fórmulas. Tierra Son y Tambor (Quito, 1973) • La niebla encendida (Quito, 1983) • El perro que se mana la mierda (aluncia, 2014)
Anthologies
Anthologies
• Consta en las antologías: El nuevo relato ecuatoriano (Quito, 1951) • Antología del cuento hispanoamericano contemporáneo (Quito, 1958) • Antología del relato ecuatoriano (Quito, 1973) • Cuento de la generación de los 30 (Guayaquil) • Antología del cuento ecuatoriano (Lima, 1974) • Cuentos hispanoamericanos, Ecuador (Quito, 1992) • Cuento contigo (Quito, 1993) • Antología básica del cuento ecuatoriano (Quito, 2001).
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Esmeraldas.
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- 1.ADALBERTO ORTIZ - ProQuest.
- 2.Cuentos negristas. 978-980-276-355-9.
- 3.THE BLACK SOCIAL IDENTITY IN SELECTED NOVELS OF NELSON ESTUPINAN BASS AND ADALBERTO ORTIZ - ProQuest.
- 4.Ecuador y su sueño de alcanzar el Nobel de Literatura.
- 5.Adalberto Ortiz: "El sembrío de los recuerdos". 2600-5751.
- 6.Adalberto Ortiz Juyungo.
- 7.Cinco facetas del resentimiento nietzscheano en "Juyungo" de Adalberto Ortiz. 14. 0278-8969.
- 8.Poemas de Adalberto Ortiz.
- 9.El espejo y la ventana. 978-9978-80-103-1.
- 10.Adalberto Ortiz: el hombre y la creación literaria. 4. 0278-8969.
- 11.Tras la literatura oral del Pacífico: Barbacoas, Nariño.
- 12.Rol de la tradición oral en la formación de la identidad cultural afroecuatoriana en Juyungo, de Adalberto Ortiz. 2600-5751.
- 13.La variante lingística utilizada como recurso literario en la narrativa de la novela Juyungo de Adalberto Ortiz.
- 14.Lo afro y la plurinacionalidad: el caso ecuatoriano visto desde su literatura. 978-9978-04-688-3.
- 15.Adalberto Ortiz : from margin to center. 978-1-61146-133-6.
- 16.Adalberto Ortiz y Nelson Estupiñán Bass: Hacia una narrativa afroecuatoriana.
- 17.El concepto de negritud en el ensayo de Adalberto Ortiz. 2600-5751.
- 18.Adalberto Ortiz - Tierra, Son, Tambor.
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