Enrique Gil Gilbert

Enrique Gil Gilbert was born in Guayaquil on 8 July 1912 and was the youngest of the group from his city, with which he signed, at eighteen, a first collection of short stories. A communist activist from 1932, he lost in 1935 his teaching post at the Vicente Rocafuerte school and held leadership positions in his party; his convictions earned him several imprisonments, including fifteen months under the junta of 1963. He had married the painter Alba Calderón, who founded the movement for the recognition of women in the country, and had two sons. He died in Guayaquil on 21 February 1973.

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